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Word: frentic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

Somewhere under all of that basaltic opacity and frentic word-accumulation something, presumably, is being expressed. The obscurity of the diction (an alembic is anything which distills or refines) and the ambiguity of the description reduce the poem to a mere order of words unified by consonant repetition and inarticulate verbal echoes...

Author: By Patrick Odonnell, | Title: The Advocate | 5/24/1967 | See Source »

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