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    A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or...
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  • The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in September 1988, the book was inspired by the life of...
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    A verse is formally a single metrical line in a poetic composition. However, verse has come to represent any grouping of lines in a poetic composition...
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  • falling into a distinct type. Some narrative poetry takes the form of a novel in verse. An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning. In...
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    form of a novel. Literary prose: While prose rather than verse became the standard of the modern novel, the ancestors of the modern European novel include...
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    German words Bildung ("education", alternatively "forming") and Roman ("novel"). The term was coined in 1819 by philologist Johann Karl Simon Morgenstern...
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    to publish, Pushkin wrote his most famous play, Boris Godunov. His novel in verse Eugene Onegin was serialized between 1825 and 1832. Pushkin was fatally...
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  • exception is the verse novel), are examples of works written in prose. Developments in twentieth century literature, including free verse, concrete poetry...
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    Literature (section Novel)
    between poetry and prose is obscure". There are verse novels, a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of...
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  • Glass is the second novel in the verse novel series Crank by Ellen Hopkins, published in hardcover in August 2007 and in softcover on April 7, 2009. The...
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    Poetry (redirect from Verse form)
    Poetry (a term derived from the Greek word poiesis, "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities...
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    Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is often whimsical and humorous in...
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    The encyclopedic novel is a literary concept popularised by Edward Mendelson in two 1976 essays ("Encyclopedic Narrative" and "Gravity's Encyclopedia")...
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    Verse drama is any drama written significantly in verse (that is: with line endings) to be performed by an actor before an audience. Although verse drama...
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    Eugene Onegin (category Verse novels)
    Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (Russian: Евгений Онегин, роман в стихах, romanized: Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ...
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    ἐλεγείᾱ (elegeíā; from ἔλεγος, élegos, ‘lament’) originally referred to any verse written in elegiac couplets and covering a wide range of subject matter...
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  • Autobiography of Red (category Verse novels)
    Autobiography of Red is a verse novel by Anne Carson, published in 1998 and based loosely on the myth of Geryon and the Tenth Labor of Herakles, especially...
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  • sonnet", refers to the verse form popularized (or invented) by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin through his 1825–1832 novel in verse Eugene Onegin. The...
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    and the first edition of Arthur Quiller Couch's Oxford Book of English Verse (1900). In East Asian tradition, an anthology was a recognized form of compilation...
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  • Inside Out & Back Again (category Verse novels)
    Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel, written in free verse by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 US National Book Award for Young People's...
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  • Onegin (film) (category Films based on Russian novels)
    British-American romantic drama film based on Alexander Pushkin's 1833 novel in verse Eugene Onegin, co-produced by British and American companies and shot...
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    was little commercial appeal in staging verse tragedies (though Coleridge, Robert Browning, and others wrote verse dramas that were staged in commercial...
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  • Tricks is a young adult verse novel by Ellen Hopkins, released in August 2009. It tells the converging narratives of five troubled teenage protagonists...
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    including: Irish author Sarah Crossan won the Carnegie Medal for her verse novel, One. The story follows the life and survival of conjoined twin sisters...
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  • directorial debut with the film Onegin – an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's verse novel Eugene Onegin, which starred her brother Ralph in the title role. The...
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    misunderstanding of the form as Pindaric in his 'Preface': "The measure of verse used in the chorus is of all sorts, called by the Greeks 'monostrophic'...
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    Priapeia. Some later Latin authors such as Joannes Secundus also wrote erotic verse. Haft Peykar (Persian: هفت پیکر) also known as Bahramnameh (بهرام‌نامه,...
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    the greater good. The character type originates in Alexander Pushkin's verse-novel Eugene Onegin (1825–1832). This term was popularized by Ivan Turgenev's...
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    on the floor by tardy backers. The protagonist of C. J. Dennis' 1915 verse novel The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke suffers from an addiction to playing...
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  • Crank is a novel by Ellen Hopkins published in 2004. It is based loosely on the real life addictions of the author's daughter to crystal meth. The book...
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