man-of-letters
See also: man of letters
English
Noun
man-of-letters
- attributive formal of man of letters
- 1997, in A. S. Byatt and Peter Porter (editors), New Writing 6, Vintage, →ISBN, page 183:
- The old-fashioned man-of-letters approach of the likes of Professor Lord Pinkrose is now happily behind us.
- 1987, Deirdre David, Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 7:
- Too privileged, entering upon their ‘man-of-letters’ inheritance as a birthright, […]
- 2008, Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse, 1790–1910, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 302:
- Carlyle in his man-of-letters patronage missed the craft with which the angry Corn-Law rhymester rhymester of The Village Patriarch meant to reclaim the people’s half […]
- 1997, in A. S. Byatt and Peter Porter (editors), New Writing 6, Vintage, →ISBN, page 183:
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