do you need to study poetry to be a good prose stylist?
>>9630366
Yes
>>9630366
To be more specific, you need to have given up on poetry (cause it was too hard) to be a good prose stylist.
>>9630366
You should at least have a cursory understanding of poetic techniques (assonance, consonance, alliteration, rhyme, meter, line breaks). All these things apply as much to prose as poetry.