| 单词 | prose poetry |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprose poetry prose poetry n. poetry in the form of prose; prose with a poetical character; (also) prose poems as a genre. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > [noun] > prose having quality of poetry prose poetry1826 1690 W. Temple Ess. upon Poetry (1909) 60 The next Succession of Poetry in Prose seems to have been in the Miletian Tales.] 1826 T. Flint Francis Berrian I. iv. 133 There are in it some of the most eloquent passages, and some of the most impressive sentences of that beautiful prose poetry, which seems peculiar to the French. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. ii. 41 Sidney commits himself..to the pestilent heresy of prose-poetry, saying that verse is ‘only an ornament of poetry’. 1924 W. C. Brownell Genius of Style iii. 84 The fundamental weakness of prose poetry is not so much that the poetry is out of character as regards its mood as that it is out of place in its form of expression. 1992 Time 6 July 70/2 Wilde's shimmering, overripe, pseudo-antique prose poetry. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。