Yet his personal war was never with a military opponent: it had been with his ravaging depression and with his struggle to find a literary expression through poetry that was worthy of his talents.
The term fairy tale, if taken literally, should refer only to stories about fairies, a class of supernatural and sometimes malevolent beings often believed to be of diminutive size who were thought by people in medieval and postmedieval Europe to inhabit a kingdom of their own; a literary expression of this belief can be found in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Bharati sought to synthesize the popular and the scholastic traditions of Tamil literature, and he created thereby a Tamil that was amenable to all literary expression.
Of the more than 14 volumes of his work, only the original Confessions is a definitive literary expression.
With Turner, light increasingly diffused the objects illuminated, and only a more literary expression satisfied his concept of the sublime, drawing him to mountain grandeur, raging seas, storms, and conflagrations.
We are now seeing a form of literary expression disappear without any discussion of whether it has a role to play in modern education.
With Mr. Fuentes and others he was an exponent of the Latin American "boom" of the 1960s, a flowering of literary expression that brought Latin American writers to the attention of the wider world.
La Pléiade, group of seven French writers of the 16th century, led by Pierre de Ronsard, whose aim was to elevate the French language to the level of the classical tongues as a medium for literary expression.
And criticism is less a personal engagement with literary expression — whether it be surprising, revolting or inspiring — than an objective appraisal of verbal craftsmanship.
It accuses Spanish rule of an authoritarianism closed to new ideas and innovation, of presiding over an empty formalism in literary expression, and of promoting spagnolismo, an exaggerated and ostentatious pomp all perceived as the fruits of a decadent, backward-looking colonial domination.
Though these reports are extremely uneven and often fragmentary, they do give a sampling of the literary expression of many and diverse parts of the world.
