She was young, and she had had only a few years of absolutely first-rank work, but that is true of many writers, including some of the greatest.
Some critics regarded him as a second-rank writer, who occasionally produced first-rank works, and felt his plots and writing could be formulaic.
Other collections include: The Aliens Among Us (1969) Monsters and Medics (1977; published by Ballantine Books; includes the novel Second Ending) Futures Past (1982) (includes the Sector General story Spacebird) Paul Kincaid described White as a second-rank writer who occasionally produced first-rank works, and attracted a devoted but not wide audience.
While not of the first rank, Coolbrith's work avoided sentimentality, didacticism, and stilted prosody.
It may be hard to conceive of making the claim about a young adult book, but I believe "Octavian Nothing" will someday be recognized as a novel of the first rank, the kind of monumental work Italo Calvino called "encyclopedic" in the way it sweeps up history into a comprehensive and deeply textured pattern.
Besides oils, Israëls worked in watercolours and was an etcher of the first rank.
First, ranking DMUs can be considered for future work.
Well, cults often gather around powerful works of the second rank.
How does the ranking work?
Davis Polk & Wardwell ranks first, having worked on two mergers worth $18.6 billion — but primarily the Cnooc transaction.
As a result, many surviving works that evidence first-rank compositions but uninspired execution are attributed to workshop members or followers.
