A fine prose style, if we are veteran readers, and equal to it, affords one of the most delicious experiences in the whole world of art. It is so subtle and fastidious that it must be considered very ...

The history of Bangla prose is generally described from the beginning of the nineteenth century. But most scholars agree that some examples of Bangla prose can be found from the sixteenth centuries.

The critic William Hazlitt (1778–1830), known best in his lifetime for his writing on Shakespeare, was a jack of all trades and a master of none too few, trying his deft hand at painting, philosophy, ...

An essential collection of prose poems from across the globe, by old masters and new, reveals the form’s astonishing range You might think of a prose poem as a bastardised form – neither one thing nor ...

IN all study of English literature, if there be any one axiom which may be accepted without question, it is that the ultimate standard of English prose style is set by the King James version of the ...

The Idea of Perfection: The Prose and Poetry of Paul Valéry, translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody (image courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux) In his 1919 essay “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” ...

From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a new study ...