English

Noun

man-of-letters

1. attributive form of man of letters
   • 1997, in A. S. Byatt and Peter Porter (editors), New Writing 6, Vintage, ISBN 9780099545514, 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 9780801419652, 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 9780199232987, 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 […]