No "taint of bookishness" disturbed the local fellowships which gave him opportunity to express in "familiar and dramatic form" of story and illustration his more substantial philosophy and so find for it the perfect speech.
"The French in the Heart of America"
John Finley
Then I tackled Beowulf, and found it to be what I guessed-no rugged national epic at all, but a blown-out bag of bookishness.
"Brother Copas"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
The poet's bookishness would therefore inevitably have made him something of a recluse, and we have no reason to tax his own description with exaggeration.
"Chaucer and His England"
G. G. Coulton