Word: literateur
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...young writers of Germany. As in a dream they responded to the mystic inspiration of Fichte, uniting in the quest for the blue flower, seeking the impalpable of the ideal. Friedrich Schlegel, opium-wafted Buddha, contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe's brow the garlands of supremacy which...
Apropos the Sir Hubert Wilkins-Ellsworth Expedition to the North Pole (TIME, March 23), mention has not been made of The Great Stone of Sardis written in 1891 by Frank Richard Stockton, journalist and literateur...
Paul Eugene Louis Deschanel (1920), died in 1922 at 65, "the National Orator," several times President of the Chamber of Deputies, indefatigable spellbinding literateur, defeated Clemenceau for the Presidency largely by his ability to draw tears or laughter from any audience at will...