Other Prose Literature
Philosophical, historical, journalistic, and scientific writings are traditionally ranked as literature. They offer some of the oldest prose writings in existence; novels and prose stories earned the names "fiction" to distinguish them from factual writing or nonfiction, which writers historically have crafted in prose.
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“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.”
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A literature that shall at once be sound
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