But his rhapsodizing of the individual also lapsed into self-absorption.

That's when he started rhapsodizing about bird eggs and I began wondering how to get in touch with Eileen.

There is a case for hearing this great sonata as the culmination of a more formal and constructionist era and not as a plunge into 19th-century rhapsodizing.

It's a swaggering roots rocker, rhapsodising the return to Africa and subsequent Rasta salvation, but put across so louchely it could almost be about the pleasures of the flesh.

The Durrell brothers (and Henry Miller) lodged it even more firmly in the Anglo-Saxon psyche with their late-1930s sojourns, and subsequent rhapsodising in print.