Delany writes on "rhetorical ecstasy" or "critical rhapsody" and provides a list of "rhapsodic [critical] works"
He notes that this rhapsodic mode is common in the work of "the structuralists and post-structuralists" but also identifies it in "pre-structuralist criticism as well"
"Are there any more rhapsodic works than John Livingston Lowes's Road to Xanadu, Fielder's Love and Death in the American Novel, or Kenneth Burke's Language as Symbolic Action, or--to step only a little afield--Eric Auerbach's Mimesis? And in cultural criticism we have Du Bois' equally ecstatic Souls of Black Folk"
The American Shore