Sentence examples for of literary knowledge from inspiring English sources

Warner usefully locates in the Arabian Solomon a prime emblem of literary knowledge in "The Nights".

As a test of literary knowledge it was only one up from "Is Hamlet a place or a prince?", "Who kills Desdemona?" or "Is Henry V a war criminal?" (OK, I'll come clean: the last is the title of my latest book).

This can be found in journals like American Poetry Review, and is fairly close in language and style to the "craft workshops" taught at conferences like Bread Loaf and Sewanee, getting into the nuts and bolts of fiction or poetry by popular contemporary masters without imposing any rigorous discipline of literary knowledge upon the learner.

What was the extent of my literary knowledge at the age of 15?

Yet somehow Twain got left out and, as Gribben notes, those studying him "had to check dozens of disparate sources that revealed bits of his literary knowledge".

His successor, François Mitterrand, a man of great literary knowledge, was also a guest on more than one occasion, most movingly in a program when he was terminally ill just days before leaving office in May 1995.

"After twenty-four years of patiently acquiring literary knowledge I have been informed that my knowledge is no longer needed.

As a contributing editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and the Norton Anthology of Poetry, Stallworthy also helped to shape the literary knowledge of countless college and university students.

But the Aldine edition contained 3260 proverbs, with longer and more scholarly commentaries; and since the press was the greatest center of Greek linguistic and literary knowledge in Europe, the volume was not only bigger but also immensely richer in Greek sources, providing Western scholars with a resource such as had never existed before.

Through an alchemical mix of his vast historical and literary knowledge, his bombastic personality and a range of behaviors we might now place on the very mild end of the autistic spectrum, McLuhan was able to cut to the chase.

Most important of all, Penny's friends and associates will miss her gutsy creativity, her acute observation enhanced by historical and literary knowledge, and of course her laughter - all together providing for a unique humanity that only Penny Proddow could bring to our lives.