Though he reads many works in prose that stir a deep emotional appeal within him, he does not regard himself as one of those lovers who haunt the foot of parnassus Hill.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
I had then but a momentary glimpse of Mrs. Amyot, but a few months later I came upon her again in the New England university town where the celebrated Irene Astarte Pratt lived on the summit of a local parnassus, with lesser muses and college professors respectfully grouped on the lower ledges of the sacred declivity.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton
And in it a poet sat, struggling with the rebellious third act of the poetic drama that was to set him in the immediate shadow of Shakespeare, and on the level of those who ring parnassus round just below the summit.
"The Literary Sense"
E. Nesbit