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  • Little intrigues belle-lettrists more than issues of long-hand drafting — pen or pencil? — versus typing or perhaps even capriciously composing at the keyboard.

    A Few Introductory Words 2010

  • Some other names could be added to the list of London's literary ancestors; London himself wrote articles about belle-lettrists Richard Dana, Rudyard Kipling, and Maxim Gorky.

    Last Days and the Fate of His Works 2003

  • He was an inferior poet, yet the Movement poets found inspiration in his concern for clarity of language, As a critical essayist he was greatly admired -- astonishingly -- by the Leavis circle who normally had no time for the ~belle-lettrists '.

    Orwell and Bohemia 1994

  • No classics but the usual school and college text-books; no recent fiction; almost no American literature except the most reliable of the historians; none of the essayists or belle-lettrists, except Carlyle,

    Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

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