Moore is quoting here in that phrase "business documents and school-books," as she tells us, from Tolstoy, a prose writer.

穆尔在那个短语里引用了这句,“商业文书和教科书“，正如她告诉我们的，引用来自托尔斯泰，俄国小说家。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

An ear and an appetite for these sounds of sense is the first qualification of a writer, be it of prose or verse.

这些感性的声音的耳朵和胃口,是作家最基本的素质，不论是写散文还是诗歌。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

We looked at its relation to the new career that John Milton ended up assuming in the late 1630s: this new career as a polemical writer of political prose.

我们研究了它与17世纪30年代末,弥尔顿最终以幻想告终的新事业：,这个写政治散文的宣传性作家的新事业。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选