0 a man, usually a writer, who knows a lot about literature
Once he established himself as a man of letters, he adopted other pseudonyms to conceal his incursion into doubtful fictional genres.
How then is the progressive politics of this man of letters understood in relation to his literary works?
On the other hand, the prototype of the truth seeker as a man of letters or savant is still with us.
In this condition he decides that he must give up the ministry and take on the socially ambiguous but still potentially more securely middle-class role of the man of letters.
If the spectre of the man of letters as bourgeois hero has come to haunt autobiography, so might those perennial questions about the nature of the self.
I shall deal with the 1 million extra pensioners if this distinguished man of letters will keep his mouth shut for one minute.
He was a man of letters—an author whose novels and other works reflected that same graceful urbanity that characterised his elegance of dress and manner.
And beyond all that he was a scholar and a man of letters.