He may be said to be a prose writer of the very first class who chose to write in verse, and who justified his choice by a wonderful technical ability in the particular form of verse which he used.
As a prose writer Descartes is generally compared to his contemporary, and in some sort predecessor, Balzac, and his advantage over the author of the Socrate Chretien is stated to lie chiefly in the superiority of his matter.
The latter is especially noteworthy as a prose writer, and the comments already made on his style and influence as a poet apply here also.
The view that Arnold excelled as a prose writer continued to hold sway for many years after Mr Swinburne wrote, and it was current up to the date of Arnold's death.
His verse would long since have been forgotten had it not been for his effectiveness as a prose writer.
Matthew Arnold had other claims as a prose writer.
There is more poetry in a volume of Burns or Shelley or Heine than in a volume of similar length by a prose writer, because these poets tried to put emotion into every separate portion, no matter how small.
Yet a prose writer can do the same thing if he wants to do so.
When a prose writer is purely didactic without any emotional or aesthetic appeal he is no poet.
It must be remembered that Wordsworth was a prose writerof considerable excellence and of no small volume.
He was also a prose writer, and a tract, entitled The Cypress Grove, has been not unjustly ranked as a kind of anticipation of Sir Thomas Browne, both in style and substance.
Unlike Harvey, but like Greene and Lodge, he was a verse as well as a prose writer.
The first of these is Ben Jonson, whose high reputation in other ways has somewhat unduly damaged, or at least obscured, his merits as a prose writer.
Nevertheless both Milton's faults and his merits as a prose writer are of the most remarkable and interesting character.
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