World's 100 Classic Prose Poems

Author: Cheng Guangwei, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: Broadly speaking, prose poem is a literary form that exists between prose and poetry. If this is the case, then prose poem is actually as ancient in style as the origins of literature in China and the world. For example, the pre-Qin prose of Chinese philosophers, although leaning towards reasoning and argumentation, is a typical form of government prose, yet it also radiates poetic brilliance and can be read as a "prose-ified" poem. Western prose poems should be traced back to Sappho at the earliest; in a certain sense, Homer's epics can also be considered a magnified prose poem. They encompass the heavens and the earth, showing the unrestrained and vivid expression of prose poem.