| 单词 | prose poem |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprose poem prose poem n. a prose work having the style, character, or diction of a poem. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > prose having quality of poetry > piece of prose poem1716 1662 J. Denham Rump i. 23 All those pretty Knacks you do compose, Alas, what are they but Poems in prose?] 1716 R. Blackmore Ess. upon Several Subj. 184 Tho it should be said, that the Invocation is not necessary to an Epick Poem, yet none will affirm that it is impracticable, which plainly it is in the Prose Poem, of which we are discoursing. 1762 J. Wilkes North Briton (1763) I. 60 To-morrow will be published, O! the Roast Beef! or, The Case is alter'd. A Prose Poem in the modern Taste. By Lazarus Mac Barebones of Scotstarvit, Esq. 1842 E. A. Poe in Graham's Mag. Jan. 69/1 Criticism is not..an essay, nor a sermon, nor an oration,..nor a prose-poem. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke I. ix. 139 That great prose poem, the single epic of modern days, Thomas Carlyle's ‘French Revolution’. 1906 Daily Chron. 15 Jan. 3/4 The so-called prose-poem is very rarely attempted. 1945 D. Hinshaw Man from Kansas viii. 154 Walt Mason, whose ‘prose poems’—rhymes run without division of lines and stanzas—became a delight to millions of Americans. 1990 High Life (Brit. Airways) Sept. 82/2 Michael Ondaatje's prose poem, Coming Through Slaughter, about the New Orleans jazz cornettist Buddy Bolden..forms the basis of the opera. < as lemmas |
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