This bookish definition of poetry as impassioned literary reflection carefully spilled onto the printed page is fine as far as it goes.

There is also a sense that literary reflection would be almost immoral when taking an active hand in Russia's fate is a real possibility.

Her dissertation was on the conception of labor in Germany and its literary reflections.

Concerns the literary reflections and polemical writings with regard to an intra-Muslim ethnic conflict in al-Andalus (medieval Spain).

The nineteenth century saw significant literary reflections on political power, though on the whole the dictator novel is associated with the Latin American Boom, a literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

His accounts of his wanderings are peppered with literary and historical reflections as well as musings on the nature of travel literature.

Historical and literary reflection on the past is necessary for a prosperous future, several prominent scholars said at the annual Caldwell Lecture Friday.

His view is often an ambiguous, ambivalent, pragmatic reaction to the changing scene, but it remains an invaluable literary reflection of the conflicting moral tensions resident in our national culture at the turn of the century.

And there are many pieces of literary reflection, in the form of little paragraph-long essays, like this:

This can be seen as a literary reflection on the Japanese idea of mono no aware.