What makes Purple Prose?

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purple prose is a curse of mine.
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I'm not a big fan of purple prose. I'd never heard of it til just now but I can already think of some examples: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Tortorus description; I couldn't even get past the first few pages.
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Tolkien springs to mind...
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I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
— Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights