Thursday, June 08, 2006
Looking For A Word
Does anyone know a word that means something like "the quality of beauty in a poem or a piece of prose" or "the sheer beauty of the way the words are put together in a piece of writing"? I think there is such a word, but I can't for the life of me think of what it is. Any help would be appreciated.
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Are you maybe talking about "the sublime?"
grandiloquence? eloquence
I think I'm thinking of more of a "literary term" like assonance or pathetic fallacy or something. But maybe I'm just crazy. Thanks, guys!
Poetic aesthetics?
That is a use of the term poetry iself, or to be poetic. We might say that a passage in a work of fiction is poetry. Or, what you said was so poetic.
Bud
Read this essay by William Hazlitt: "On Gusto"
Hmm, I put out a Dave Lull alert yesterday when I saw your question but he hasn't come in.
Also I posted a Frank Wilson alert and I noted he put the question on Books, Inq. Have not checked out his comments yet.
I still can't think of it.
Thanks for all your efforts on my behalf, Maxine. It's truly appreciated.
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