| Each was the product of a decidedly unliterary Midwestern setting — before Wright, the last writer to emerge from Martins Ferry, Ohio, had been William Dean Howells — and retained a lifelong suspicion of cleverness. |
| He is not now a retired clergyman, or a specialist recruited from some unliterary field. |
| The ideal of writing in an unliterary language, in a real vernacular, seems to be rechampioned in every generation. |
| Like Ignatow, he made it a virtue to seem unliterary and found illumination in the pedestrian and the ordinary. |
| There seems to be such an extraordinary quantity of clever, talented, ignorant, unliterary literature let loose in them. |
| The unliterary words were ejected, it seemed, by a demon within. |
