A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there is usually a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novelistic manner.
A versenovel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or...
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of...
falling into a distinct type. Some narrative poetry takes the form of a novel in verse. An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In...
form of a novel. Literary prose: While prose rather than verse became the standard of the modern novel, the ancestors of the modern European novel include...
German words Bildung ("education", alternatively "forming") and Roman ("novel"). The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern...
Great Britain, he ceased to write poetry in Polish, but started writing a novel in English. He also translated poetry into English. Many universities offer...
exception is the versenovel), are examples of works written in prose. Developments in twentieth century literature, including free verse, concrete poetry...
Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is often whimsical and humorous in...
to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov. His novel in verse Eugene Onegin was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Pushkin was fatally...
Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience. Although verse drama...
Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities...
Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (Russian: Евгений Онегин, роман в стихах, romanized: Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ...
between poetry and prose is obscure". There are versenovels, a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of...
The encyclopedic novel is a literary concept popularised by Edward Mendelson in two 1976 essays ("Encyclopedic Narrative" and "Gravity's Encyclopedia")...
Kaurna land in South Australia. Eckermann has written poetry collections, versenovels and a memoir, and has been shortlisted for or won several literary awards...
sonnet", refers to the verse form popularized (or invented) by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin through his 1825–1832 novel in verse Eugene Onegin. The...
Autobiography of Red is a versenovel by Anne Carson, published in 1998 and based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially...
was little commercial appeal in staging verse tragedies (though Coleridge, Robert Browning, and others wrote verse dramas that were staged in commercial...
Out of the Dust is a children's versenovel by Karen Hesse, first published on January 1, 1997. Billie Jo begins with how her father wanted to have a...
Priapeia. Some later Latin authors such as Joannes Secundus also wrote erotic verse. Haft Peykar (Persian: هفت پیکر) also known as Bahramnameh (بهرامنامه,...
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