Major "literary" historians include Herodotus, Thucydides and Procopius, all of whom count as canonical literary figures.

The children of immigrants want to study an assured canonical figure.

Fiddlin' John Carson is one of the canonical historic figures in old time.

She was the archetype of the Romantic era's zeitgeist and the crux of many creative relationships of canonical artistic figures.

When he died in 1958 at age 86, Rouault had become a canonical figure in 20th-century art, a wayward Fauve who took his own path of fierce religiosity.

Still, it bears noting that Freud is a canonical figure, up there with Darwin and Marx, whose influence pervades everyday discourse.

The Eminent Lives series is HarperCollins' series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures."

He continues to be a canonical and controversial figure particularly among European scholars of radical politics and modern art.

It was released as a part of Harper Collins' Eminent Lives series of "brief biographies by distinguished authors on canonical figures."

A canonical figure of modern literature, Baudelaire became, over the 20th century, a touchstone for philosophers, theorists, social critics.