Sentence examples for literary virtue from inspiring English sources

You still believe in my literary virtue.

Nor is Houellebecq, shrill and even silly as he can be, entirely without literary virtue.

Even here, though, Buckley turns a possible vice into a literary virtue.

It wasn't until the Romantic era, which introduced the notion of the author as solitary genius, that originality came to be viewed as the paramount literary virtue.

But balance is not always a literary virtue, and many of the best American books are notable for their lack of equilibrium.

A lot of the pleasure of "Postwar" derives from the personality of its author, who does not count self-effacement a literary virtue.

That hardly sounds like praise — but suspense and originality are not the only literary virtues.

If in historical method he fell short of modern standards, he had the literary virtues of a historian.

Much hard SF is stylistically dry, with little concern for character or what one might consider the finer literary virtues.

The new recognition of strangeness and strong feeling as literary virtues yielded various fashions of taste for misty sublimity, graveyard sentiments, medievalism, Norse epics (and forgeries), Oriental tales, and the verse of plowboys.

Despite its lack of literary virtues, however, the poem – written in blue crayon on two sheets of 4th Hussars-headed notepaper – is expected to raise between £12,000 to £15,000 when it goes on sale on 10 April.