Literary

Famous quotes containing the word literary:

“Carlyle, to adopt his own classification, is himself the hero as literary man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Society has really no graver interest than the well-being of the literary class.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)