Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ203914

The Prose-Poetry Controversy

Authors(1) :-Dr. Raghuvansh Mani Tripathi

The Imagist Movement in English poetry provided a new face to poetry from the point of view of form and style. It brought the vogue of vers libre in the realm of English poetry. The movement saw a significant debate on the question of the nature of prose and poetry. This article aims at presenting the basic elements of the discourse.

Authors and Affiliations

Dr. Raghuvansh Mani Tripathi
Associate Professor, Department of English, Shivharsh Kisan PG College, Basti, Uttar Pradesh, India

Imagism, Vers Libre, Prose-Poetry, T.S. Eliot.

  1. John Livingston Lowes; Convention and Revolt in Poetry, [Houghton Mifflin Company, New York,1919.
  2. ibid, p. 257.
  3. Glen Hughes; Imagism and Imagists, [Biblio and Tannen, New York, 1972]
  4. T.S. Eliot; Selected Prose, ed. Frank Kermode, [Faber & Faber,London, 1975] p.31.
  5. ibid, p. 32.
  6. ibid, p. 34.
  7. ibid, p. 36.
  8. Glen Hughes; Imagism and Imagists, [Biblio and Tannen, New York, 1972]
  9. ibid, p. 273.
  10. T.S. Eliot ; 1917 ‘The Borderline of prose’ The New Statesman 9 (19 May):
  11. ibid, p.159.
  12. Herbert Read; English Prose Style, [G. Bell and Sons Ltd, London,1928]

 

Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 3 | May-June 2019
Date of Publication : 2019-05-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 201-204
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ203914
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Dr. Raghuvansh Mani Tripathi, "The Prose-Poetry Controversy ", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 2, Issue 3, pp.201-204, May-June.2019
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