Sentence examples for verse narratives from inspiring English sources

Słowacki, a Romantic in the fullest sense, wrote well-turned lyrical poetry and verse narratives in the style of Lord Byron.

In 1884 H.V. Kaalund published a picture book of "Fables for Children" based on the popular verse narratives (1833) of a Thüringian pastor, Wilhelm Hey.

Because of the general nature of the form, it has been used for many different types of poetry, from traditional verse narratives to popular songs.

The 25,000 lines that follow present a loosely structured succession of tales, parables, anecdotes and vignettes in verse, narratives which Rumi uses to elaborate his mystical thought.

Sir Walter Scott, by contrast, was thought of as a major poet for his vigorous and evocative verse narratives The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) and Marmion (1808).

It is transmitted by word of mouth and consists, as does written literature, of both prose and verse narratives, poems and songs, myths, dramas, rituals, proverbs, riddles, and the like.

Read by Adam Foulds Poetry Archive £12, 1hr 10mins This verse narrative portraying Tom's experiences on his parents' farm in Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising is compelling.

Probably his best-known poetic work was "Gunsight" (New York University Press), a long verse narrative first published in 1962 and the outcome of nearly two decades of intermittent work.

She wrote poetry, plays and a verse narrative, "The Bend, the Lip, the Kid: Reallife Stories," about a jailbird named McMagus who is convinced that the reason men become criminals is that their penises are unnaturally curved.

Shakur wrote intricate, socially nuanced lyrics: Miranda particularly admired "Brenda's Got a Baby," a verse narrative about a twelve-year-old girl who turns to prostitution after giving birth to her molester's child.

Beast tale, a prose or verse narrative similar to the beast fable in that it portrays animal characters acting as humans but unlike the fable in that it usually lacks a moral.