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  2. Prose poetry - Wikipedia

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    The prose genre has been used and explored by writers like Walt Whitman, Franz Kafka, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Anne Carson. Almost every form of art can be categorized under either the prose or poetry genre. Poetry covers forms like song lyrics, different poetry forms, and dialogue that contains poetic characteristics like iambic pentameter.

  3. Le Spleen de Paris - Wikipedia

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    Le Spleen de Paris explores the idea of pleasure as a vehicle for expressing emotion. Many of the poems refer to sex or sin explicitly (i.e. "Double Bedroom," "A Hemisphere in a Head of Hair", "Temptations"); others use subtle language and imagery to evoke sensuality (i.e. "the Artist's Confiteor").

  4. Rhymed prose - Wikipedia

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    Rhymed prose is a literary form and literary genre, written in unmetrical rhymes. This form has been known in many different cultures. This form has been known in many different cultures. In some cases the rhymed prose is a distinctive, well-defined style of writing.

  5. Prose - Wikipedia

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    Latin was a major influence on the development of prose in many European countries.Especially important was the great Roman orator Cicero (106–43 BC). [3] It was the lingua franca among literate Europeans until quite recent times, and the great works of Descartes (1596–1650), Francis Bacon (1561–1626), and Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) were published in Latin.

  6. Oscar Wilde - Wikipedia

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    She believed, mistakenly, that she was of Italian ancestry, [6] and under the pseudonym "Speranza" (the Italian word for 'hope'), she wrote poetry for the revolutionary Young Irelanders in 1848; she was a lifelong Irish nationalist. [7] Jane Wilde read the Young Irelanders' poetry to Willie and Oscar, inculcating a love of these poets in her ...

  7. Poems in Prose (Smith collection) - Wikipedia

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    Poems in Prose contains the following poems: "Clark Ashton Smith, Poet in Prose", by Donald S. Fryer "The Traveller" "The Flower-Devil" Images "Tears" "The Secret Rose" "The Wind and the Garden" "Offerings" "A Coronal" "The Black Lake" Vignettes "Beyond the Mountains" "The Broken Lute" "Nostalgia of the Unknown" "Grey Sorrow" "The Hair of Circe"

  8. Charles Baudelaire - Wikipedia

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    Baudelaire was born in Paris, France, on 9 April 1821, and baptized two months later at Saint-Sulpice Roman Catholic Church. [5] His father, Joseph-François Baudelaire (1759–1827), [6] a senior civil servant and amateur artist, who at 60, was 34 years older than Baudelaire's 26-year-old mother, Caroline (née Dufaÿs) (1794–1871); she was his second wife.

  9. Peter Johnson (poet) - Wikipedia

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    He received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of New Hampshire.. His poems and fiction have appeared in Field, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Indiana Review, Quarterly West, North Dakota Quarterly, [1] The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetry, [2] and Beloit Fiction Journal.