Hutchinson's poems are prosy, often not quite wholes, just fragments of sensibility.
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A letter critiquing a contemporary author for being "prosy" goes under the hammer at a London auction house on Tuesday.
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The subject of the letter is a "most tiresome and prosy" Gothic novel entitled "Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villainy", published by her contemporary Rachel Hunter.
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Italian bank UniCredit (UNCFF) and Amsterdam-based tech group Prosus (PROSY) have also implemented company-wide travel bans to reduce the risk of employees catching the coronavirus.
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The company's Amsterdam-listed business unit Prosus (PROSY) will no longer try to buy Just Eat (JSTTY) after its offer lapsed, Prosus said in a statement Friday.
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Prosus (PROSY), the European-listed tech investor owned by Naspers, said Monday that it would increase its bid for Just Eat (JSTTY) by 333 pence to £12.18 ($27.81) per share.
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Like Szalay, Knausgaard is often artless, prosy, clichéd, embarrassingly banal; like Szalay, he wants to explode the novel form; and like the British author he is interested in many ordinary things.
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Ward, A. W., The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. "Dryden: Annus Mirabilis". Volume 8: The Age of Dryden. This particular style dictates that each quatrain should contain a full stop, which A. W. Ward believes causes the verse to become "prosy".
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He was a student of Moriz Winternitz. In 1920, Rabindranath Tagore met him during his visit to Czechoslovakia. Lesný was an admirer of Tagore's poetry and had translated in 1914, some of his prose and poetry into Czech and published it - Rabindranath Thakur : Ukázky poesie a prosy. When Winternitz joined Visva Bharati University in 1923 as a visiting professor, Lesný also went to Santiniketan.
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The novel "is genuinely original and interesting. It focuses on three adolescent girls, two of whom combine basic good character with ugly traits not usually found in fiction for young girls. Baum starts with a trite situation that could occasion prosy moralizing...and gives it several original twists."Katherine M. Rogers, L. Frank Baum, Creator of Oz: A Biography, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2002; p. 139.
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The main character in the book is Louise Harris, a plain but content young woman who leads a life of prosy luxury. Louise gets up every morning and eats a copious breakfast, she walks the dogs, hunts in the autumn, and skates in the winter, just like hundreds of other well-born, well-bred English girls of average means. Loo is an altogether nice person, and so it is that Luke de Mountford, who knows a good thing when he sees it, asks her to be his wife. Luke is heir to his uncle, Lord Radcliffe and therefore deemed a satisfactory match for Louise. However, just when everything seems to be going well, another nephew with a claim to his uncle’s fortune turns up unexpectedly.
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53 George Saintsbury, in A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day, argues that the heroic quatrain, while breaking from the conventions of the heroic couplet, contains limitations that outweigh its liberating characteristics. To Saintsbury, the decasyllabic quatrain contains a stiffness that can not be overcome: > You can not vary your stops, as in blank verse or the Spenserian, there is > not room enough: and the recurrent divisions necessatated by the stanza lack > at once the conciseness and the continuity of the couplet, the variety and > amplitude of the rhyme-royal, octave, or Spenserian itself. In his essay on Annus Mirabilis, A. W. Ward suggests that the decasyllabic quatrain used by Davenant and Dryden, with its insistence on providing each quatrain with the "completeness" given by the final period, causes the verse to strike the reader as "prosy". While Ward respects Dryden's willingness to use a new form despite his mastery of the heroic couplet, he believes that Annus Mirabilis exemplifies the weaknesses of the form and hinders Dryden's ability to use poetry to fully express his philosophical conceits.
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