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The Verse Novel

Extended Prose Forms

A novel-length narrative work composed in verse rather than prose, sustaining the scope, character development and plotted structure of a novel across an extended poem, a hybrid form running from Pushkin's Eugene Onegin through the contemporary young-adult verse novel revival.

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Place of Origin
Russia, early 19th century, with roots in earlier verse romance; revived internationally in the 20th-21st centuries. 1
Structure
Extended narrative organized in verse, in either a fixed stanza form repeated throughout (as in Eugene Onegin's own sonnet-like stanza) or free verse, sustaining novelistic scope and plotted development. 1
Notable Example
Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1833) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986), a modern novel in Onegin stanzas. 1
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Eugene Onegin

The Verse Novel
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Eugene Onegin, Works

Form Of Genre

The Novel, Genres
Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

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Eugene Onegin, Works
Source Eugene Onegin (Wikipedia)
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Russia

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject originated.

Source The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poeticstier 1
Sources
1. The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
Princeton University Press
  • Place of Origin: Russia, early 19th century, with roots in earlier verse romance; revived internationally in the 20th-21st centuries.
  • Structure: Extended narrative organized in verse, in either a fixed stanza form repeated throughout (as in Eugene Onegin's own sonnet-like stanza) or free verse, sustaining novelistic scope and plotted development.
  • Notable Example: Alexander Pushkin's Eugene Onegin (1833) and Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986), a modern novel in Onegin stanzas.
Eugene Onegin (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationWorks In This Form: Eugene Onegin, Lead paragraph, sentence naming the form
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Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse (Russian: Евгений Онегин, роман в стихах, romanized: Yevgeniy Onegin, roman v stikhakh, pre-reform Russian: Евгеній Онѣгинъ, романъ въ стихахъ, [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ɐˈnʲeɡʲɪn]) is a novel in verse written by Alexander Pushkin.
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