Mr. Sampson, who returned often to South Africa, wrote evocatively of life in the country's black townships.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the then Poet Laureate, wrote evocatively about the battle in his poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade".

Four of the sisters were published writers of wit and substance, and, as this collection of their letters to one another demonstrates, all six could write evocatively, even hauntingly.

The novelist Jocelyn Brooke, who died in 1966,writes evocatively about Folkestone and Sandgate in his memoirs.

He writes evocatively of strolls through Cracow, an architectural frontier between German Gothic and the lightness of Northern Renaissance.

And in the 1940's, long before he became Prime Minister, a young Pierre Elliott Trudeau wrote evocatively of a voyage into Canada's outback.

Braque was profiled by Janet Flanner, who also wrote evocatively about Picasso and Matisse.

Mr. Minta, as he reinterprets Byron's life, always writes evocatively, suggestively, but he does not always provide a model of thematic clarity.

In extreme situations, Mr. Kotulak evocatively writes, "violence rises, like some long-subdued monster breaking free of its bonds."

Smith later wrote evocatively about the highs and lows of growing up in such an environment.