By converting prose lessons into poetry, I aimed to leverage the rhythmic and mnemonic qualities of verse to facilitate learning. For example, I applied this approach to the X grade English Main ...

including the major poets Wang Wei, Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Su Shi and Lu You as well as the great prose stylists Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan and Quyang Xiu.

Novels became popular with readers in the 18th century, so are a fairly new type of fiction compared with poetry and drama. Prose texts are usually defined by their length, though there are other ...