In this latter, he seems the literary descendant of Shakespeare's Friar Laurence who made great (though ultimately futile) efforts to help Romeo and Juliet.

In some ways, such protagonists may be considered the literary descendants of the knight errant which stood at the center of earlier extensive genres such as the Arthurian Romances.

If Orton is clearly Wilde's most direct literary descendant, he can also trace his theatrical roots all the way back to Sheridan and Moliere.

One scales the plays' heights much as one sinks into the overstuffed Victorian novels that are among their literary descendants.

As explained in these essays, Winters considered the moderns the literary descendants of Romanticism.

My all-time favorite similes, by the way, come from the hardboiled-detective fiction of the forties and fifties, and the literary descendants of the dime-dreadful writers.

Gnolls are the literary descendants of Lord Dunsany's "gnoles", who were clever, evil and nonhuman.

A literary descendant of William Carlos Williams, Dr. Straus often writes about communication between doctors and patients.

I secretly hoped for a literary descendant of Henry James - someone more talented than I, someone brilliant without even trying.

Arsène Lupin is a literary descendant of Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail's Rocambole.