Sentence examples for literary observation from inspiring English sources

But we do know this was a friendship of an especially fertilizing sort for a budding poet: a bond fusing the warmth of natural boyish amity to the pleasures of shared literary observation.

Much the way the hyper-articulate John Updike struggled at times to channel his very literary observations and musings through the point of view of Rabbit Angstrom — an ordinary small-town Toyota salesman — so Mr. Wayne sometimes struggles to depict the thinking of his 11-year-old hero, a precocious and knowing kid, but an 11-year-old nonetheless.

There are love poems that involve getting a home-made tattoo from the woman she would later enter into civil partnership with; social observation; literary jokes – the poem "Sigh" reads, in its entirety, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by payment plans" – and memoir, all threaded through with the dark presence of Tiresias.

The majority of his early journal entries were not intended to be literary, but merely observations of early New England life.

Kenner adapted his critical style to suit the particular author under scrutiny, following Dr Johnson's observation that literary criticism must be regarded as part of literature or be abandoned altogether.

But Carter, whose own best-selling novels "New England White" and "The Emperor of Ocean Park" suggest he knows something about combining literary entertainment and penetrating observation about race in America, found his assumptions upended.

JANUARY Fiction Michael Cunningham's The Hours revisited Virginia Woolf to stunning effect; By Nightfall (Fourth Estate) is his latest attempt to put art and beauty at the centre of consciousness, combining literary reference with sensuous observation.

And he's a bit of a literary artist himself; his observations are often strikingly phrased.

There is a wry wit, also evidenced in Ms. Atwood's conversation, which is filled with ironic observations and literary references.

It was Lowell who was the roaring, self-lacerating, tragic king of the poetry jungle.These letters are full of delightfully acute observations about literary personalities and tell us much about the art of poetry in America how poets think, behave and suffer.

Instead, it is strewn with astute intellectual observations and literary references.