effulgent

resplendent, radiant F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Amory in relation to Clara

"Presently the days grew shorter and at the moment when I entered the room the violet sky seemed branded with the stiff, geometrical, fleeting, effulgent figure of the sun (like the representation of some miraculous sign, of some mystical apparition) lowering over the sea on the edge of the horizon like a sacred picture over a high altar, and while the different parts of the western sky exposed in the glass fronts of the low mahogany bookcases that ran along the walls, which I carried back in my mind to the marvellous painting from which they had been detached, seemed like those different scenes executed long ago for a confraternity by some old master on a reliquary, whose separate panels are now exhibited side by side in a gallery, so that the visitor's imagination alone can restore them to their place on the predella of the reredos."

-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, pp 522-523 of the Modern Library paperback edition

Oh yeah, I forgot about that - it was brilliant.

There's a great nod to that in the series finale of Angel, Spike recites it at a poetry slam.

Male Partygoer (reading William's poetry):
My heart expands
'tis grown a bulge in't
inspired by
your beauty effulgent. Effulgent?
2nd Male Partygoer: And that's actually one of his better compositions.
Female Partygoer: Have you heard? They call him William the Bloody because of his bloody awful poetry!
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "Fool for Love"