Title: Verse with prose from Petronius to Dante : the art and scope of the mixed form /
Authors: Dronke, Peter.
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Classical literature History and criticism; Literature, Medieval Classical influences.; Literary form
Abstract: Peter Dronke illuminates a unique literary tradition: the narrative that mixes prose with verse. Highlighting a wide range of texts, he defines and explores the creative ways in which mixed forms were used in Europe from antiquity through the thirteenth century.
Contents: I. Menippean Elements -- II. Allegory and the Mixed Form -- III. Narrative and the Mixed Form -- IV. The Poetic and the Empirical "I"