Sentences with phrase «poetic prose as»

You mention poems by Michael Harnett and Vona Goake as well as some of Becket's poetic prose as influences on your work.

Not exact matches

In that sense his prose style was as closely matched to his critical goals as his poetic style to his poetic mission.

thinks, that the Tigris and the Euphrates have not a common source, that the Dead Sea had been in existence long before human beings came to live in Palestine, instead of originating in historical times, and so on... We are able to comprehend this as the naive conception of the men of old, but we can not regard belief in the literal truth of such accounts as an essential of religious conviction... And every one who perceives the peculiar poetic charm of these old legends must feel irritated by the barbarian — for there are pious barbarians — who thinks he is putting the true value upon these narratives only when he treats them as prose and history.

Similarly, to turn Augustine's poetic prose into verse, as Boulding does at several points, is to impose on the reader a literary self - consciousness that Augustine knew well but declined to use.

But whereas in translating scientific prose the aim is simply to reproduce with complete accuracy the author's statements, in translating «poetic» language the primary aim is not just to reproduce statements about reality but, as far as may be, to make the same communication of reality — which will mean trying to reproduce something of the author's «tone of voice», something of the mood and colour of tie original.

What immediately strikes the reader is Wacker's writing style, which could best be described as «poetic prose.»

Hailed by critics as «one of the best of the genre» (Toronto Sun), his intense, poetic prose and his terrifying clan of characters are sure to thrill even the most discerning suspense reader.

In prose as knowing as it is poetic, Pearlman shines a light on small, devastatingly precise moments to reflect the beauty and grace found in everyday life.

As the plot paths converge, we see how the tragic past becomes the tragic present, but it's Solares» prose — alternately playful, poetic, and plainspoken — that propels the pages.

Scheidt's spare and poetic debut offers up pretty images for some decidedly unpretty situations («the unmade bed is peaked and stormy»); at times, her prose feels as tightly wrought as a novel in verse.

In prose poems and poetic essays as sharp and stinging as a surprise slap to the face, Rankine matter - of - factly chronicles ordinary encounters poisoned by racism.

The book's poetic names, such as Arterial Blood Red, Berlin Blue, and Verdigris Green, added flourish to the writings of many researchers, allowing vivid descriptions for prose which had previously been limited to a more elementary color palette.