What is Prose: Definition and Examples in Literature
What is prose in Literature or creative writing? Remember, there are other glossaries with the word ‘prose’, thus when talking about it, one should not think it is only in literary parlance that we can
The City in the Sea
The City in the Sea by Edgar Allan Poe Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad
Dreamland
Dreamland by Edgar Allan Poe By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly
Three Sundays in a Week
Three Sundays in a Week by Edgar Allan Poe. Three Sundays in a Week YOU hard-headed, dunder-headed, obstinate, rusty, crusty, musty, fusty, old savage!” said I, in fancy, one afternoon, to my grand uncle
The Premature Burial
The Premature Burial by Edgar Allan Poe. The Premature Burial THERE are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction. These the
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum I WAS sick, sick unto death, with that long agony, and when they at length unbound me, and I was
The Man of the Crowd
The Man of the Crowd by Edgar Allan Poe. The Man of the Crowd It was well said of a certain German book that “er lasst sich nicht lesen”–it does not permit itself to
The Landscape Garden
The Landscape Garden by Edgar Allan Poe. The Landscape Garden No more remarkable man ever lived than my friend, the young Ellison. He was remarkable in the entire and continuous profusion of good gifts
The Business Man
The Business Man by Edgar Allan Poe. The Business Man Method is the soul of business. —OLD SAYING. I am a business man. I am a methodical man. Method is the thing, after all.