Sentence examples for literary ancestry from inspiring English sources
From the outset, then, Williams reveals his literary ancestry.
William Blake's visionary transformations of London form the poem's most important literary ancestry.
A rapid series of close readings emphasizes the literary ancestry and techniques of individual poems.
Novels, too, have lineages, and Morgan's own literary ancestry is extensive, as she acknowledges.
Though influenced by the religious myths of Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Egypt, Greek literature has no direct literary ancestry and appears self-originated.
Literary critic Anatole Broyard hid his black ancestry from the public and his children until he died in October 1990.
The first time I had no evidence of any sub-Saharan ancestry, much to the horror of my literary agent who had secured me a contract to write about my father's racial passing; it climbed to 13% during a retest.
Tod's enthusiasm for bardic poetry reflected the works of Sir Walter Scott on Scottish subjects, which had a considerable influence both on British literary society and, bearing in mind Tod's Scottish ancestry, on Tod himself.
Demidenko was the pen name of Helen Darville, whose debut novel, The Hand that Signed the Paper, was the subject of a major Australian literary controversy in the preceding year, in which Darville falsely claimed Ukrainian ancestry as part of the basis of the book and her pseudonym.
On the verge of becoming as famous an artist-politician as Václav Havel, Vargas Llosa managed to finish first in the initial round of balloting, only to lose the second, badly, to Alberto Fujimori, an agricultural engineer of Japanese ancestry, who came so quickly out of nowhere — promising "Honesty, Technology and Work" — that his advent, too, seemed more "literary" than political.
