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Also known as poems in prose, prose poems

literary genre

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Vinony's link graph records 370 inbound references to prose poetry, and connects out to France, Germany and United Kingdom.

Vinony files it under Genres of poetry and Prose.

Vinony links it to 39 Wikipedia language editions.

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poetry
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poetic prose
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Encyclopedic overview

Gaspard de la Nuit (1842) by Aloysius Bertrand, one of the first western instances of prose poetry. Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form while otherwise deferring to poetic devices to make meaning.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “prose poetry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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