The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem is the first comprehensive guide to the prose poem written from an international and comparative perspective.
The first comprehensive guide to the prose poem, this book covers the history of the genre from Aloyisius Bertrands Gaspard de la nuit and Baudelaires Paris Spleen to its most important modern and contemporary practitioners. It gives special attention to the genres hybridity as well as to its propensity to engage in a dialogue with other genres, discourses and artistic forms. Written by prominent scholars of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, The Edinburgh Companion to the Prose Poem offers analytical and historically informed narratives of the genres transformations and variations across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and into the next.
