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A verse novel is a type of narrative poetry in which a novel-length narrative is told through the medium of poetry rather than prose. Either simple or complex stanzaic verse-forms may be used, but there will usually be a large cast, multiple voices, dialogue, narration, description, and action in a novelistic manner. == History == Verse narratives are as old as the epic of Gilgamesh, the Iliad, and the Odyssey, but the verse novel is a distinct modern form. Although the narrative structure is similar to that of a novella, the organisation of the story is usually in a series of short sections, often with changing perspectives. Verse novels are often told with multiple narrators, potentially providing readers with a cinematic view into the inner workings of the characters' minds. Some verse novels, following Byron's mock-heroic ''Don Juan'' (1818–24) employ an informal, colloquial register. ''Eugene Onegin'' (1831) by Alexander Pushkin is a classical example, and with ''Pan Tadeusz'' (1834) by Adam Mickiewicz is often taken as the seminal example of the modern genre.〔For discussion of the basic categorical issues see ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'' (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), ''s.v.'' 'Narrative Poetry'.〕 The major nineteenth-century verse novels that ground the form in Anglophone letters include ''The Bothie of Toper-na-fuisich'' (1848) and ''Amours de Voyage'' (1858) by Arthur Hugh Clough, ''Aurora Leigh'' (1857) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ''Lucile'' (1860) by 'Owen Meredith' (Robert Bulwer-Lytton), and ''The Ring and the Book'' (1868-9) by Robert Browning. The form appears to have declined with Modernism, but has since the 1960s-70s undergone a remarkable revival. Vladimir Nabokov's ''Pale Fire'' (1962) takes the form of a 999-line poem four canto The parallel history of the verse autobiography, from strong Victorian foundation with Wordsworth's ''The Prelude'' (1805, 1850), to decline with Modernism and later twentieth-century revival with John Betjeman's ''Summoned by Bells'' (1960), Walcott's ''Another Life'' (1973), and James Merrill's ''The Changing Light at Sandover'' (1982), is also striking. The forms are distinct, but many verse novels plainly deploy autobiographical elements, and the recent Commonwealth examples almost all offer detailed representation of the (problems besetting) post-imperial and post-colonial identity, and so are inevitably strongly personal works. There is also a distinct cluster of verse novels for younger readers, most notably Karen Hesse's ''Out of the Dust'', which won a Newbery Medal in 1998. Hesse followed it with ''Witness'' (2001). Since then, many new titles have cropped up, with authors Sonya Sones, Ellen Hopkins, Steven Herrick, Margaret Wild, Nikki Grimes, Virginia Euwer Wolff, Ann Warren Turner, Lorie Ann Grover, Brenda Seabrooke, Paul B. Janeczko, and Mel Glenn all publishing multiple titles. Debut YA authors, Holly Thompson, Cathy Ostlere, Sarah Tregay, and others have added new titles to the shelves in 2011. In 2012, Thanhha Lai's Inside Out and Back Again won the National Book Award. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「verse novel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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