Writers' Houses is also an ode to literary pilgrimage, a lifelong interest of Devers's.

Devers hopes that other writers and archivists will share their stories of literary pilgrimages, and the site encourages submissions (a current essay describes a tour through James Merrill's Connecticut home).

In May 1891 he traveled to England to make a tour and what he considered a literary pilgrimage.

Like many unreconstructed English majors, I have a weakness for literary pilgrimages, a form of travel based on the principle that homage must be paid to genius.

He and his fellow Newark-ite Paul Auster like to speculate about making a literary pilgrimage to their roots.

Colerdige remained in Highgate for the rest of his life, and the house became a place of literary pilgrimage of writers including Carlyle and Emerson.

A literary pilgrimage is an interesting idea - but to what purpose?

From the early 1800s the town became a place of literary pilgrimage after Thomas Moore the famous Irish composer wrote one of his most celebrated works Canadian Boat Song here.

Fortunately, there have been times when the literary pilgrimage more closely resembles the religious.

A literary man, he had little use for the literary pilgrimage and had dropped few handkerchiefs for the pilgrim on his trail.