G V Desani, a canonical Indian writer of fiction, had a condescending opinion of Kipling.

This constant nonsense about 'redeeming' Shrew, to me, symptomises everything that is wrong about the uncritical lionising of certain canonical writers.

Reed, in a new work, returns to the overhaul of canonical English writers in All the World's a Grave, fall 2008, Penguin Books.

In between are intellectually luxuriant essays on what might be called the canonical Yiddish writers, from Peretz to Singer.

Scottish literature is quite a sad little field, when our major canonical writers are supposed to be Burns and Stevenson - essentially childrens' authors.

What it describes, however, are tenets of literary naturalism, a philosophy espoused by a number of canonical American and European writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Most of his infamously demanding texts consist of careful interpretations of canonical writers in the Western philosophical, literary and artistic traditions - from Plato to Joyce.

The Library of America published a volume of Lovecraft's work in 2005, essentially declaring him a canonical American writer.

He is undoubtedly the only canonical writer to endorse "Madame Fontaine's Bosom Beautifier," a breast-enlarging cream.

It is easy to roll one's eyes and say, "How safe, how respectable - romance, rebellion and renunciation in period costumes, taken from the texts of respected, canonical writers."