The question remains, however, whether this accomplishment is tantamount to literary greatness, as Shippey claims it is.

I have no class or appreciation for literary greatness.

The Arbat trilogy, in this sense, falls short of literary greatness, but it offers many lessons worth keeping in mind.

But we know that, in all the higher elements which go to make up literary greatness, it is supremely excellent.

At Harvard he acquired an ambition for literary greatness that has never left him.

The book does not aspire to literary greatness, and so, although intelligent, it is not oppressively earnest about what it sets out to do.

As Ms. Drew puts it: "Friends noticed nothing about the Swede that marked him for literary greatness."

He spent the first 19 years of his life here before moving on to Madrid and literary greatness.

William Faulkner had a sublimely perverse notion of literary greatness.

A further aim of the Dertigers was the effort to achieve a literary greatness that would make its mark in world literature.