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Paean was meant (8 February, page 4).

This romantic paean was the creation myth of postwar France.

Lawrence's paean was only the public eruption of a reputation already in revival.

Its latest paean is "Picasso: The Artist's Studio," focusing on the studio as the core of his creative universe.

The term paean is used to refer to a literary genre found in Homer's Iliad and in the poems of Archilochus (7th century bc).

A more scholarly paean is offered in "The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain,"(Little, Brown, 2002) by Maria Rosa Menocal, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.

Re "Adored, Deplored and Ubiquitous" (Basics, April 15): Flagrantly missing from Natalie Angier's plastics paean was any mention of the highly toxic plastics-associated compounds of which we are only just learning.

This melodramatic Watergate paean is really just bog-standard election-year pre-gaming.

The implication is crystal clear: There is often an unnavigable gulf between the artist and his work and, dammit, that's okay; you can honor the man's abilities without letting your paean be tarnished by any of the nastier realities of who he is or what he's done.

Congress declared the third week of pro-football season Constitution Week, during which paeans are to be sung.

Paeans were sung at banquets (following the boisterous dithyrambs), at festivals honouring Apollo, and at public funerals.