proseman

If other poets of our time show more intellectual strength than he, are they, perchance, given sometimes to adulterating their poetry with ratiocination and didactic preachments such as were better left to the proseman?

Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

Is it that the convincement of him who works in poetic forms is, though not necessarily, yet most perfectly achieved by a faithful record of the emotion aroused in his own soul by the impact upon his senses of the external world, while the convincement of the proseman is, though not necessarily, yet most perfectly achieved by a faithful record and picture of the external world itself?

Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

My neighbour the proseman is wiser, and more cow - ardly and despairing than ever.

The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift... 1813

We have hitherto spoken of work done in the dedicated life of religion: to-day we direct our attention to the work of a great layman; the first English layman whom we know to have been a great power in literature; less as a "maker," poet or proseman, than as an opener out to "makers" of precious store; a helper and encourager; a fellow-student; a learner and a teacher of whom it could be said, as Chaucer says of his Clerk of Oxford, "gladly would he learn and gladly teach."

Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days Emily Hickey

Even the poet — he who, dealing as he does with essential and elemental qualities only, is not so hampered as the proseman in these matters — is beginning also to feel the tyranny of documents, as we see notably in Swinburne’s ‘Bothwell,’ which consists very largely of documents transfigured into splendid verse.

Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873