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• Prose
  ...sciences, business, government and law are generally written and spoken in prose. ...Everything that is not prose is verse, and everything that is not verse is prose". ( "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Act II. English translation at Project Gute
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• Prose/Bibliography
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• Prose/Related Articles
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• Prose/External Links
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• The Canterbury Tales/Definition
  Collection of stories in verse and prose by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]].
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• Icelandic sagas/Definition
  <noinclude>{{Subpages}}</noinclude>Medieval prose works relating stories, mostly concerning Iceland or the deeds of Icelander
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• Novel/Definition
  A work of prose fiction of extended length.
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• Prose
  ...sciences, business, government and law are generally written and spoken in prose. ...Everything that is not prose is verse, and everything that is not verse is prose". ( "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Act II. English translation at Project Gute
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• Novella/Definition
  A work of prose fiction somewhere in length between a short story and a "full length" novel
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• Rainer Maria Rilke/Related Articles
  Rilke prose works:
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• Robert Graves/Definition
  ...bert von Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist and writer of other prose, including biography, social history and accounts of myths.
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• Romance literature/Definition
  A medieval verse or prose story concerning often concerning love or acts of chivalry in somewhat of a
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• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge/Definition
  [[Rainer Maria Rilke]]'s only book-sized work of prose, published in German 1910; the narrative takes the form of a rambling novel
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• Henrik Ibsen/Definition
  ...828-1906) [[Norway|Norwegian]] dramatist regarded as the founder of modern prose [[drama]]; wrote ''[[A Doll's House]]'' and ''[[An Enemy of the People]]''.
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• Mother's Day U.S./Bibliography
  ...: its history, origin, celebration, spirit, and significance as related in prose and verse
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• Thomas Carlyle/Definition
  ...men" as agents for remedying the human condition and for his idiosyncratic prose style.
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• T.S. Eliot/Works
  == Prose ==
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• Satire/Notable satires
  ===Prose - political=== ===Prose - other writers===
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• John Bunyan
  ...onformist minister, was one of the great writers of 17th century English [[prose]]. The son of a worker in [[brass]], he served briefly in the parliamentar His prose style, compared with that of many contemporaries, is colloquial and simple,
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• Romance literature
  A '''romance''' is a medieval verse or prose story concerning often concerning love or acts of [[chivalry]] in somewhat
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• E. E. "Doc" Smith
  ...doughnuts. Comic book guy would say "best - author - ever." --> While his prose tends to be florid, his influence can be seen in such later science fiction
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• Maecenas
  ...rous [[patronage]] of the arts. While Maecenas wrote both [[poetry]] and [[prose]] himself, he was more successful at spotting [[literature|literary talent]
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• General Prologue (The Canterbury Tales)/External Links
  ...aculty/necastro/chaucer/translation/ct/01gp.html ''General Prologue''], in prose, eChaucer, University of Maine.
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• John Milton/Bibliography
  * '' The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton'' (Modern Library, ed. by William Kerrigan, John Rumrich, an * ''Complete Prose Works of John Milton Series'' [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/SeriesPag
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• Elizabethan literature
  == Prose == The Elizabethans produced no prose writers comparable with [[Thomas Malory|Malory]] before or [[John Bunyan|Bu
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• Novelette
  A '''novelette''' is a work of prose fiction somewhere in length between a short story and a [[Novella|novella]]
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• Petrarch
  ===Latin Prose=== ===Italian poems and prose===
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• Assonance
  ...ted repetition of vowel sounds, more frequently in verse, but sometimes in prose. In verse it can occur anywhere in the line. If the closing consonants ar
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• Novella
  A '''novella''' is a work of prose fiction with a length between a [[short story]] and a [[novel]]. Many defin
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• Against the Day
  ==Pynchon's Prose Style== Pynchon's prose ranges from the erudite and scientific to the langorously wistful (see for
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• Multiple sclerosis/Bibliography
  * [http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/poetry.html MS poetry, prose, personal experiences and art.]
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• Thomas Malory
  ...the 19th century that Malory was recognised as a great writer of narrative prose.
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• Alliteration
  ...ould normally be in the same line (or, in some cases, pair of lines), in [[prose]] they would simply be close together.
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• Henry James
  He was a master and innovator of prose fiction. In works as ''Daisy Miller'' (1879), ''The Portrait of a Lady'' (1
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• Novel
  A '''novel''' is a work of prose fiction of extended length. A novel is usually expected to be 50,000 or mor ...the fact that, unlike the [[epic poetry|epic poem]] for example, it is in prose.
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• Anglo-Saxon people
  ...s'' of [[Boethius]]. Although his success was considerable, the surviving prose consists mainly of such translations, the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]], homili
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• Robert Graves
  ...t von Ranke Graves''' (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist and writer of other prose, including biography, social history and accounts of myths. ...ated the [[Iliad]] as ''The Anger of Achilles'' he wrote the bulk of it in prose, though his professed purpose was to restore something of its value as mixe
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• Socratic dialogue
  ...dialogue''' (Greek Σωκρατικὸς λόγος or Σωκρατικὸς διάλογος) is a literary prose genre, developed in [[Greece]] around 400 BC. The best known examples are t
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• Markandeya Purana
  ...th Dutt, published by Elysium Press in 1896. Title: The Markandeya Purana (Prose Translation).
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• Henry Vaughan
  == Prose ==
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• Poetry
  ...meanings of words. There is considerable evidence that poetry predates [[prose]], since the earliest poetic productions date from a long era of [[oral tra
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• Thomas Carlyle
  ...s for remedying the human condition and for his idiosyncratically forceful prose style.
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• Thomas Hardy
  ...g of shorter poems was his long work ''The Dynasts'' (1904 - 6), partly in prose, dealing with the [[Napoleon]]ic wars. The historian G M Young, writing in
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• Táin Bó Cúailnge
  ...ish language|Old]] and [[Middle Irish language|Middle Irish]], mainly in [[prose]], with some [[verse]] sections, especially at moments of heightened tensio ...e cryptic summaries, and the whole is rather disjointed. The oldest of the prose can be dated to the 8th century, some of the verse passages may be even old
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• Rainer Maria Rilke
  ...ids Brigge]]'', among other works. He wrote both verse and highly lyrical prose, and critics have several times described his work as "mystical".
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• John Donne
  == Prose == Donne's first major prose work was ''Biothanatos'', a treatise on Christianity and suicide, written i
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• H. H. Lewis
  ...]]," or common man. With such support, magazines began to publish Lewis's prose and poetry, including Mencken's [[The American Mercury]], Conroy's [[The An ...in a style commonly referred to as [[Grammar B]]. He wrote both poetry and prose on the conditions of Native Americans, African-Americans, and [[sharecroppe
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• Ignjat Đurđević
  ...ted to write very early. He wrote in Croatian, Latin and Italian language, prose a swell as poetry.
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• Old English
  ===Prose=== The most well-known work of Old English prose is probably the [[Anglo-Saxon Chronicle]], a set of annals which was probab
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• Icelandic sagas
  The Icelandic sagas are medieval prose works relating stories, mostly concerning [[Iceland]] or the deeds of Icela
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• David Vogel
  ...arlier. Living with the disease became the subject matter with some of his prose (most notably ''In the Sanatorium'') and greatly enhanced the sense of impe ...), but very much alien to the ''zeitgeist'' of much of the Hebrew language prose and poetry.
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• Finnegans Wake
  ...that raise themselves above the deep stream of consciousness portmanteau prose that is the text of the ''Wake''. Among these, the most prominent are Anna
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• Dante Alighieri
  ...s the main subject of his ''[[La Vita Nuova]]'', a collection of verse and prose essays published in 1293, a few years after the death of Beatrice. Beatrice
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• Ella Young
  * George Brandon Saul, "A Stone Against Oblivion: On the Prose of Ella Young," Arizona Quarterly, Fall 1954, p. 28
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• William Wordsworth/Bibliography
  * ''The Prose Works of William Wordsworth'', ed. by W. J. B. Owen and J. W. Smyser, 3 vol
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• Mabinogion
  The '''Mabinogion''' is a collection of Welsh medieval tales, most in prose. The title is a 19th century fabrication by Lady Charlotte Guest who was t
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• T.S. Eliot/Bibliography
  ...f T.S. Eliot'' ed. by Frank Kermode (1975) [http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Prose-T-S-Eliot-T/dp/0156806541/ref=pd_bbs_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208101920&sr=8-
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• William Blake
  He also produced some prose works, including ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell''. ...he Name and Nature of Poetry. 1933, in Carter, J, ed. A E Housman Selected Prose. Cambridge University Press. 1961</ref> Swinburne's great contribution to
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• Early Modern English
  :Things unattempted yet in prose of rhyme.
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• Battle of Dien Bien Phu/Bibliography
  ...asonable data on Viet Minh logistics. While still in political jargon, the prose flows better than in many other Viet Minh documents.
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• Rudyard Kipling
  Of a prose that knows no reason<br>
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• Odin
  ...ation. The more connected accounts given by [[Snorri Sturluson]] in his ''Prose Edda'' and by later writers were only put together long after the conversio *Snorri Sturluson, ''Prose Edda'' Jean I. Young, trans. 2002, ISBN 0-520-23477-4
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• The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
  ...), published in 1910, was [[Rainer Maria Rilke]]'s only book-sized work of prose. It is often classified as a novel, but that is uncertain. There are no c It has been called challenging to render German lyrical poetry and prose into English because it relies so strongly on alliterative and rhythmic nua
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• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  '''Prose''' <br /> ...st comprehensive systems.<ref>Stauffer, Donald A, ed. Selected Poetry and Prose of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Random House. 1951. Introduction</ref>
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• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  '''Prose''' '''Prose juvenilia'''
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• Beowulf
  There have been numerous translations, in verse and in prose, some aiming at literal fidelity, others at conveying the meaning in a mode
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• Robert Herrick
  ...ed and prolonged and elaborated songs".<ref>Swinburned, A C. ''Studies in Prose and Poetry''. 1894. Reproduced in Hyder, C K. ''Swinburne as Critic''. Rou
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• Molière
  ...olina]] and inspired by the life of [[Giovanni Tenorio]], rendered in a [[prose]] that still seems modern today; it describes the story of an atheist who b ...says that a person has been "doing prose without knowing it" ("faire de la prose sans le savoir"), it means that she has done something or succeeded in some
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• Literature
  ...periods ("[[Victorian literature]]") as well as into formal categories ([[prose]], [[poetry]], or [[drama]]) and [[genre]]s (such as the [[epic]], the [[no ...me has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the perceived aestheti
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• A.E. Housman
  ...iod, and have been appreciated by some ever since. The incisive and witty prose of his reviews, introductions and other academic papers made him notorious
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• Literature/Citable Version
  ...periods ("[[Victorian literature]]") as well as into formal categories ([[prose]], [[poetry]], or [[drama]]) and genres (such as the [[epic]], the [[novel] ...ecognizable options of poetic structure. [[Prose]], of course, especially prose described as "poetic", may partake of all these qualities as well, though g
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• Authorized Version
  .... Modern Bibles differ on whether the book of Proverbs is set as poetry or prose.</ref> It significantly changed the text as well as the format; like earlie ...m prose and poetry, etc., but it was put into a uniform format of numbered prose "verses" and a fairly uniform style of English. It has been suggested this
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• Prizzi's Money
  ...Richard Condon is like an invitation to a party.... the sheer gusto of the prose, the madness of his similes, the lunacy of his metaphors, his infectious, a ...ney.".... Of course, what really makes the novel work is Mr. Condon's acid prose.... <ref>The New York Times, 6 February 1994</ref></blockquote>
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• John Milton
  ...e brought out a new edition of his minor poems. He had also produced some prose works, including a ''History of Britain''. He died the night of 9-10 Novem ...y and to the English language.”<ref>Eliot, T.S., "Milton II" in ''Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot'' (London: Faber and Faber, 1980), p. 274.</ref> According to
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• Medieval English Mystics
  ...y Ghost, he composed varied works in English and in Latin, in verse and in prose. Judging by the number of surviving manuscripts he was the most popular of
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• Reading (performance)
  ...and debate)|forensics]], where the competitors read two selections, one [[prose]] and one [[poetry]].
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• Norse mythology
  ...ation. The more connected accounts given by [[Snorri Sturluson]] in his ''Prose Edda'', and by later writers, were only put together long after the convers
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• James Hogg
  ...produce songs, satires and other poems, but in 1818 he produced his first prose fiction to be published as a separate volume.
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• Prizzi's Glory
  ...Richard Condon is like an invitation to a party.... the sheer gusto of the prose, the madness of his similes, the lunacy of his metaphors, his infectious, a ...the cheerfully grim mayhem, and in Condon's inventive and literally tasty prose. (""Charley entered Eduardo's apartment as bland as a Reblochon cheese."")<
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• Edmund Spenser
  ...f drastic measures to subdue Ireland, shown both allegorically, and in his prose work ''View of the Present State of Ireland'', distributed in manuscript du
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• Bertolt Brecht/Bibliography
  === Drama, poetry, and prose === ...One''. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose. London: Methuen. ''Baal, Drums in the Night, In the Jungle of Cities, The
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• George Herbert
  His chief prose work - ''A Priest for the Temple'' - was published in 1652. This was a guid
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• Walter Scott
  ...he gave his borrowings a different energy from that of the originals. His prose style was criticised by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] as an ungrammatical and
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• Desmond Skirrow
  ...w was a master of rather light-hearted, [[Raymond Chandler|Chandleresque]] prose, with such phrases as "she dealt me into Schneider's presence like a hand o
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• William Wordsworth
  ...describes Wordsworth as showing that "prose is verse, and verse is merely prose", and calls him a "dull disciple" of Southey. But acceptance followed, and * ''The Prose Works of William Wordsworth'', ed. by W. J. B. Owen and J. W. Smyser, 3 vol
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• Andrew Marvell
  ...one famous publication he put his name to in his life was a controversial prose work.<ref>Hunt, J D. Andrew Marvell: His Life and Writings. Elek Books. 197
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• Hartmann von Aue/Bibliography
  ...ley Thomas ed. and trsl. (Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1979) Good English prose translation, with introduction.
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• Crusades/Bibliography
  ...erence work on the Fourth Crusade; it is the first work in medieval French prose. Joinville's life of St. Louis is a classic description of the life and tim
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• Laudatio Iuliae amitae
  ...e of how Caesar creates a speech in the ''genus demonstrativum'' as hymnic prose throughout, but with a decisive Caesarian character: His piece is of immacu
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• Geoffrey of Monmouth
  ...yamon)|Brut]]'') in the early 13th century; and into three different Welsh prose versions by the end of the 13th century. The Arthurian section undoubtedly
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• The High Wire
  As usual with Haggard's books, his understated prose and the elegant upper-stratum world of most of his characters belie the vio
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• Walter Ralegh
  Ralegh's first published venture into prose writing was a propaganda piece about the last fight of the Revenge against
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• Prizzi's Honor
  ...Richard Condon is like an invitation to a party.... the sheer gusto of the prose, the madness of his similies, the lunacy of his metaphors, his infectious,
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• The Empty House
  ...and shooting, followed by a neat coda, but only Gilbert's dependably lean prose and the West Country atmosphere (though merely half-sketched) lift this a s
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• Labraid Loingsech
  ...ster. Various versions of the story of Labraid's exile are told. In one, a prose tale in the ''[[Book of Leinster]]'', Cobthach holds an assembly in [[Tara]
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• Thomas Wyatt
  ...e year he produced the only work of his to be published in his lifetime, a prose translation from Plutarch ''The Quest of Mind'', which he presented to [[Ca
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• The Frozen Deep
  ...]], when a completely new dramatic version, adapted in turn from Collins's prose version, was staged by the [[Ironduke]] company. Described as "dark and moo
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• English spellings/Catalogs/T
  ...in AmE, *Jánuary the twéntieth in BrE. Not normally capitalized in running prose: '''a shóp ín the Stránd'''; '''a fán of the Bêatles'''; the Dutch cap '''The Hâgue''' ''Netherlands'', capital '''T''' preserved in running prose: '''whén wê vísited The Hâgue''' *Dhə Hâyg
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• Naturalism (literary)/Bibliography
  Garland, H. (1899). The trail of the goldseekers; a record of travel in prose and verse. New York, London: The Macmillan company; Macmillan & co., ltd.
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• Pali Canon
  ...pdf]). The first four of the nikāyas are in a fairly uniform style, mainly prose dialogues, sermons, etc., mostly featuring the Buddha **Khuddaka-nikāya: a miscellaneous collection of books in prose and/or verse
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• Ulster Cycle
  ...Cycle are written in Old and Middle [[Irish language|Irish]], generally in prose, interspersed with occasional verse passages. They are preserved in manuscr
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• Amy Lowell (poet)
  ...eed'' began to include experiments with "unrhymed cadence" and "polyphonic prose"
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• Alfred Nobel
  ...l was also a playwright. His only play, ''[[Nemesis (Nobel)|Nemesis]]'', a prose tragedy in four acts about [[Beatrice Cenci]], partly inspired by [[Percy B
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• CZ Talk:How to convert Wikipedia articles to Citizendium articles
  ...pticism about anyone who says he cannot substantially improve any piece of prose he's written, particularly something as free-form and expandable as an ency :I've found I can endlessly tweak any piece of prose I've written, but that does not necessarily add up to "improving" it. Some
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