prose

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Trotzig’s lush language, rendered fluidly in Saskia Vogel’s translation, resembles poetry more than prose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The prose is clean and lucid, characters and cityscapes fully rendered, and “The Forsyte Saga” creates the pleasurable illusion that it might never end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

The result, the author concludes, “is in many ways a blend of prose and poetry. He writes with a lyrical flair that entices the reader to read aloud and almost sing the story being told.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

We are drowning in a sea of abysmal, artificially generated prose.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

According to this theory, opaque prose is a deliberate choice.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker