It seeks to transform, by literary methods that do not distort or falsify, the truthful record of fact into the truthful effect of a life being lived.
"An autobiography but not a record of fact," as the poet warns, it's a five-part work, 700 lines altogether, using a variety of formal structures and recurrent themes and symbols tightly intermeshed.
This latest literary hoax is likely to trigger yet more questions as to why the publishing industry has such a poor track record of fact-checking.
Roman epitaphs, in contrast to the Greek, contained as a rule nothing beyond a record of facts with little variation.
A sickly, effeminate child with a disastrous self-image, he understood right away that photographs were emotionally powerful records of fact, but also magical things that could, in the right hands, make the ugliest duckling look like a presentable swan.
At the end of the century, it is photographers dedicated to the systematic recording of fact who are regarded as having produced some of the greatest works of photographic art - Atget's documenting of architectural details and neighbourhoods of old Paris, or August Sander's massive study of different classes of the German people, Citizens of the 20th Century.
The propositions of geometry and arithmetic record matters of fact that are very deep and invariable in our experience.
It isn't really possible to summarise this book in this way, because its glory is in the detail, in its recording of facts and lives, atmospheres and words, quirks of feeling and behaviour.
For Aristotle, empiricism, careful observation (but passive observation, not controlled experiment), is the starting point, though the aim is not merely recording of facts.
It shows the way in which Emily's imaginative and real lives intersected: news of characters in her fantasy world of "Gondal" rubs shoulders with a down‑to-earth record of the fact that Charlotte is at that very moment upstairs sewing, listening to Branwell read aloud.
This will cost a little more, but will create a legal record of the fact that your letter was delivered.
