Sentences with phrase «unwashed barbarians»

And it contains everything one really needs to have read in American literature, so as not to appear an unwashed barbarian: William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman, Crane, Cather, O'Connor.

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Now, with the advent of self - pubbing, the barbarians avoid the gates altogether and enter through the side door, much to the dismay of the elitist NY - pubbed authors, who see their private club being infected willy - nilly by hordes of unwashed indie writers.