His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal.

The novel was praised for its elegant prose and won him a prize from the Académie française.

Professor Stewart said she enjoyed sitting down after a hard day of work to read, as she phrases it, "my husband's elegant prose."

Such melodramatic events are chronicled in precise, elegant prose that throws them into stark relief.

However, Barnes's elegant prose was the bookmakers' favourite throughout, and the judges took just 31 minutes to reach their decision.

-- "He would certainly have done more justice to simple and elegant prose.

Kirkus Reviews remarks the elegant prose carrying the reader to another time:

With her elegant prose, beautifully drawn characters, and perfect pitch dialog, she lured me in.

"Her precise and elegant prose is smart and artful."

And whatever has happened to that lucid, elegant prose?