IT IS usually dangerous for anyone whose gift is one art to attempt to follow another. The pitfalls of following poetry when your gift is prose are obvious enough to ...

I HAVE seen it stated that, when Tennyson’s Princess was published in the United States, two generations ago, it was the best-selling book in the country, and that Patmore’s The Angel in the House, ...

The prose dialogue we find to be uniformly good; we feel its integrity; Mr. Hardy here employs a medium of which he is a master. To read a passage made up in part of this prose and in part of that ...

Perhaps since Wordsworth’s Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, poets have been using prose to understand how poems and poetry work. Something about the procedures of prose, its civilities and solidity, ...

American prose poetry—a tradition extending from Robert Bly to Lyn Hejinian—has finally come into its own. Although prose poems defy easy classification—they are, as the name indicates, neither ...

This week, Alice Fulton’s poem “Claustrophilia” appears in the magazine. Last week, I chatted with Fulton over e-mail about word choice, the difference between prose and poetry, and the musicality of ...

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,” ...

“Let the prose we write still rhyme,” said Zohran Mamdani in his victory speech after winning the New York City mayoral election. | Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images North America/ Getty Images via ...

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, ...