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Novels in verse

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us: Novels in verse


  • Here are entered novel-length fictional narratives expressed in poetry. Short fictional works written in rhymed text are entered under [Stories in rhyme.]

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    • us: Verse novels

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    • found: Work cat.: Carson, A. Autobiography of red : a novel in verse, 1998.
    • found: Seth, V. The Golden Gate : a novel in verse, c1986.
    • found: WaU database, Aug. 20, 2002 (novel in verse; verse novel; verse-novel)
    • found: OCLC WorldCat, Aug. 20, 2002 (verse novels; verse-novels; novels in verse; novel in verse)
    • found: Wikipedia, July 11, 2012 (Verse novel. A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novelistic manner; Long classical verse narratives were in stichic forms, prescribing a metre but not specifying any interlineal relations. This tradition is represented in English letters by the use of blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter), as by both Brownings and many later poets. But since Petrarch and Dante complex stanza-forms have also been used for verse narratives, including terza rima (aba bcb cdc etc.) and ottava rima (abababcc), and modern poets have experimented widely with adaptations and combinations of stanza-forms; [lists novels for adults and for teens])

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    • Here are entered novel-length fictional narratives expressed in poetry. Short fictional works written in rhymed text are entered under [Stories in rhyme.]

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    • Note under [Stories in rhyme]

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    • 2002-11-07: new
    • 2012-10-10: revised

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