un-literary

Updated: May 3, 2025

But the crowded audience received them with rapture; and the very fact that an astute caterer should serve up this particular form of clap-trap showed how the sympathy with Mr. Kipling had permeated even the most un-literary stratum of the public.

William Archer - America To-day, Observations and Reflections

Its period was the day of the "wits" those beaux of the mind. I guess the reason it has gone by the board is that it was what would be called "literary." And there is nothing we are so scared of to-day as the literary. It was not those dons the critics, we are told on the subway cards, who made Dickens immortal it was YOU. And our foremost magazines advertise the "un-literary essay."

Robert Cortes Holliday - Walking-Stick Papers