Best poetic prose

Who has the best poetic prose? Why?

st augustine

Gass: no other author has the range of expression and style, and no other author can compose a sentence like he can.

Just read actual poetry desu

Pessoa, even if I fucking hate Portuguese

I like his style but what he actually writes about is just so purely whatever.

define "poetic"

Prose whose value comes from its beauty and its melody, focusing less on effectivity.

nice try satan

what about that definition is poetic
poetic relates to poetry, not all poetry is beautiful or melodic. beyond that, beauty isn't a quantifiable thing.