A.E. Housman (n.) is a scholar who smuggled heartbreak into tidy poems.
Alain Robbe-Grillet (n.) is the novelist who treated plot like a stain on the furniture
Alain Robbe-Grillet (n.) is a novelist whose works resist being translated (being ‘read’) into the established terms of bourgeois Literature and offer us, instead, a pure negativity, the meaninglessness of the world of objects.
Aldous Huxley (n.) is all raw, uncooked, protesting.
Aldous Huxley (n.) is a walking encyclopedia — you could always tell by his conversation which volume of the Encyclopedia Britannica he'd been reading.
Aldous Huxley (n.) is the stupid person's idea of a clever person.
Alexander Pushkin (n.) is a national poet, which means every child memorizes him and every adult quotes him wrong.