The Reformation period, as we have seen in an earlier chapter, was rich in prose literature of every description--in fact, the output of serious German writing continued unabated until well into the seventeenth century.
The middle period of the nineteenth century showed a further development in prose literature, producing some of the greatest historians and critics the world has seen.
With the growth of prose literature, especially of oratory, on the one hand, and the increased splendor of the gladiatorial shows on the other, tragedy ceased to be a living branch of Roman literature.
Some of these men, regarding the Latin language as too imperfect for use in prose literature, wrote in Greek, recording the events of Roman history for the enlightenment of foreigners and of educated Romans.
The Forms of Prose Literature, courtesy of Messrs.
The reason is this: in prose literature there is a conspicuous absence of beauty of form and sensation, of the decorative, in comparison with the other arts.
Prose Literature A prose literature arose in Rome not much later than Roman poetry, but in a very different way.
Prose afforded him a more favourable field, and accordingly he applied the whole varied power and energy peculiar to him to the creation of a prose literature in his native tongue.
Should the reader conclude to accept the prose literature of ecstasy as poetry, he will find there was much poetry in the world's prose literaturethat he has never recognized as such.
Just as critics have selected the poems from lengthy metrical works, choosing the story of Margaret from Wordsworth's Excursion, for example, so they could glean the poems of prose literature.
The point is that De Quincey's literature of power includes not only poetry in verse and prose, but the entire field of general literature which hovers on poetry, or in which the poetry is diffused so that we call it prose literature.
All this merely proves that parallelisms were no doubt anciently used to differentiateprose literature conveying emotions from prose literature barren of feeling.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prose literature" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
