Monna Vanna is written, partly, in the same kind of blank verse as Sister Beatrice-very poor stuff considered as poetry, and very troublesome to read as prose.
"Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck"
Jethro Bithell
This shorter form of prose fiction was once apologetic, and that not so many years ago; but it has come into its own and now is recognized as a distinct type of prose narrative.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
His preface to his English prose version of Higden's Polychronicon explains: In some place I shall set word for word, and active for active, and passive for passive, a-row right as it standeth, without changing of the order of words.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos