Sentence examples for didactic writing from inspiring English sources

Poe accused Longfellow of "the heresy of the didactic", writing poetry that was preachy, derivative, and thematically plagiarized.

"There's his powerful, human-oriented writing, and his very didactic writing, and 'Carol' falls on the didactic side".

Chinese literature, the body of works written in Chinese, including lyric poetry, historical and didactic writing, drama, and various forms of fiction.

Lydgate's following at court gave him a central place in 15th-century literary life, but the typical concerns shown by his verse do not distinguish it from a great body of religious, moral, historical, and didactic writing, much of it anonymous.

Although Ms. Morrison's portraits of this evil physician and Frank and Cee's monstrous grandmother Lenore verge on fairy tale caricature, this economical tale is largely free of the didactic writing that turned "Paradise" and "Love" into brittle, cartoonish exercises, pitting women against women, women against men, young against old.

You peeked coyly above your weathered paperback of Atlas Shrugged (which I personally think is Ayn Rand's most self-indulgent, hollow work -- and that's saying a lot, considering her insidiously didactic writing style) and smiled at me.

Others find the works didactic, or written in a confused variety of styles.

There are works extant from the middle of the 14th century, didactic texts written in prose by Jaina monks; one such is the Bālāk̄abodha ("Instructions to the Young"), by Taruṇa-prabha.

There are works extant from the middle of the 14th century, didactic texts written in prose by Jain monks; one such text is the Balavabodha ("Instructions to the Young"), by Tarunaprabha.

C.E. historian), explaining a small passage in some detail, but then continues in the vein of a didactic letter written to an unnamed fellow alchemist (called 'friend of the Muses' at one point); it 'explains' how to join scattered parts of gold and purify metals, emphasizes the significance of 'divine water' (whatever that is) and so on and so forth.

Other literary works in Old Tamil include Thirukural, Silappatikaram and Maṇimēkalai, and a number of ethical and didactic texts, written between the 5th and 8th centuries.