Miss Bishop had published some things-rhapsodic prose-poems, weak in syntax but strong in the quality miscalled imagination.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Their seniors, who once bid so high, such as Mr Bennett and Mr Wells, have taken the fatal plunge which leads to popularity, but the younger ones have produced one man, Mr D. H. Lawrence, prejudiced, diseased in outlook, hectic and wandering, who has the exquisite feeling for natural beauty, the rhapsodic quality which may make of him a prose Shelley, if not a prose neurotic.
"A Novelist on Novels"
W. L. George
There is a fable that when the badger had been stung all over by bees, a bear consoled him by a rhapsodic account of how he himself had just breakfasted on their honey.
"Impressions of Theophrastus Such"
George Eliot