prosemen

Conjecture has naturally run riot as to the part which either Snorri or Sturla may have taken in the sagas not directly attributed to either, but most probably dating from their time, as well as with the personalities of the unknown or little known poets and prosemen who shaped the older stories at about the same period.

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) George Saintsbury 1889

He can never be really popular; but for the meditative reading of instructed persons he is perhaps the most delightful of English prosemen.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

I wish to show to the world, the odds between a poet's friends and those of simple prosemen.

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Robert Burns 1777