The older Forster, who wrote essays and assorted nonfiction and assumed the persona of a curmudgeonly literary eminence, became increasingly daring and sociable.

Even as a young man, Longfellow aspired to literary eminence.

A lot of soapsuds were spilled on the way to literary eminence.

Kanci has been a centre of literary eminence with its Ghatikas or centres of education which have flourished in the early centuries of the Christian Era.

He was the literary eminence of Hyde Park.

Even amid the terrors of the French Revolution, Parr adhered to Whiggism, and his correspondence included every man of eminence, either literary or political, who adopted the same creed.

What is so notable about these multivolume editions of literary letters is how many of their correspondents are themselves men and women of great literary eminence.

Yet how many works of literary eminence would be lost forever, if an author's evaluation of his own work or his desire not to see it published were the determining factors?

"The family of Dalrymple," observes Scott, "produced within two centuries as many men of talent, civil and military, of literary, political and professional eminence, as any house in Scotland."

In 1830, the honour of knighthood was conferred on him by King William IV, in consideration of his literary eminence.