Belles Lettres, Criticism, Essays
- 2011 — Eric Bentley
- 2005 — Joan Didion
- 1999 — Harold Bloom
- 1993 — Elizabeth Hardwick
- 1987 — Jacques Barzun
- 1981 — Malcolm Cowley
- 1975 — Kenneth Burke
- 1965 — Walter Lippmann
- 1960 — E. B. White
- 1955 — Edmund Wilson
- 1950 — H. L. Mencken
- 1946 — Van Wyck Brooks
- 1935 — Agnes Repplier
- 1925 — William Crary Brownell
- 1916 — John Burroughs
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“Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir’d by Conversation.”
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