| 单词 | writer's writer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswriter's writer writer's writer n. (also writers' writer) a writer whose works are generally considered to appeal chiefly to other writers, rather than to a wider audience, esp. one noted for employing markedly literary language or techniques.Cf. earlier poet's poet n. at poet n. Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writer appealing to fellow-writers writer's writer1880 1880 Amer. Reg. 18 Dec. 3/3 Flaubert was emphatically a writer's writer, one whose originality of thought, and whose wonderfully artistic execution were far better appreciated by those whose calling it is..to write than by the general public. 1951 Sunday Times 15 Apr. 3/2 She [sc. Ivy Compton-Burnett] is in the first place ‘a writers' writer’, because she is fascinated by words and phrases as such. 2006 M. A. Wollaeger Modernism, Media & Propaganda i. 42 Today we think of Conrad as a difficult novelist,..whose uneven works strain against novelistic conventions, a writer's writer. < as lemmas |
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