How to Really Talk About Books You Haven't Read, a guide to books and literary erudition, was released in October 2008.

To appreciate King's literary erudition, consider how he once occupied much of his time while in an Ohio slammer for manslaughter a quarter of a century ago.

Mr. Cale isn't afraid to show his musical or literary erudition.

He's got the tools he thinks are necessary to the task: an elephantine narcissism apparently separated from its mostly inseparable pal, vanity, and a self-consciously literary erudition.

Stephen Gillers, a law professor at New York University, argued Hamlet's case with equal parts literary erudition, legal scholarship and high silliness.

Desproges held the part of the prosecutor for more than two years, a part for which his verve, his scathing humour and his literary erudition were ideally suited.

Not because his worldly knowledge or his literary erudition is lacking.

He was valued in the battalion for the romantic soul and the literary erudition" [1].

Mr. Lopate knows how to track the divagations of his thought and sensibility wherever they will lead - toward sharp observation, literary erudition, contemplative musings or personal revelation.

I might say that, but I have a weakness for polysyllables; I like to exhibit my literary erudition.