Word: bodiless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to medieval Jewish scholars, there are 301,655,722 angels-the bodiless spirits who stand midway in the chain of being between God and man. In A Dictionary of Angels (Free Press; $15), Poet-Anthologist Gustav Davidson, 72, has put together a wacky and wonderful compendium of angelic lore, including brief biographies of 3,406 angels whose names, habits and histories are recorded in the Bible, rabbinical and cabalistic literature, writings of the church fathers and poetry...
Instead, the edge of the alphabet proves to be a nebulous psychological limbo whose inhabitants are all the lonely, half-crippled, emotional misfits who exist on the pallid fringes of the everyday world. It is presided over by a weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...
Procession of Sounds in the Night, done in 1943, was an imaginative effort to give shapes to bodiless little noises, to picture 'the creatures you thought might make the sounds you could not identify." The two pictures together seemed to prove what Graves himself denies: that both whispers in the grass and the roaring of machinery can be beautiful, in totally different ways. Vachel Lindsay, an earlier American romantic, once put the point in verse...