Well, he responds, he sometimes finds himself reading "really fine prose, really beautifully expressed, clear prose, and feel, well, I should probably give up now".
For busy as he was with writing, publishing and revising his poetry, he found time for multifarious activities whose byproducts he expressed in prose.
His story becomes Sebastian Barry's salute to the socio-cultural marriage between Ireland and the New World, expressed in prose that contrives to be both Irish and American, a remarkable sleight of hand.
The central antagonist of the Ramayana, the demon-king Ravana, was not given a song; his oppressive presence was expressed in prose narration, poetic descriptions and songs sung by the other characters (such as Ravana's demon brother Kumbhakarna in "Lankevar Kāḷ Kaṭhin ālā").
His book about his journey to Egypt, entitled Safar-nāmeh (translated into English as Diary of a Journey Through Syria and Palestine), is a pleasing example of simple, clearly expressed, early Persian prose.
Blake would beckon that the beauty of God and the duality of the earth should be expressed through pretty prose.
But what ultimately makes the book come together is Sinclair's tough but malleable sensibility, expressed through a prose style that's hard-edged, inventive, often wildly extravagant.
They expressed in poetry and prose their feelings about the pioneering black musicians who spawned a new, uniquely American art.
The author of 17 books and numerous columns and articles, he was a man of many opinions, strongly held and expressed in lively, engaging prose.
The khaṭīb expressed himself in beautiful prose that extolled the nobility and achievements of his tribesmen and denigrated the weakness of the tribe's enemies.
