After two years he resigned this post and went back to Edinburgh to pursue a purely literary career.

The merits contained in any Williams novel - and this one has many - are not purely literary.

This literature tends to be anecdotic rather than the purely literary.

It all comes with this correlation: there is no such thing anymore as a purely literary publishing house.

And he spent his later years mostly in purely literary pursuits.

Is there such a thing as a purely literary publishing house?

The reality is that there is no longer any such thing as a purely literary publishing house.

Passing fancies might take a purely literary form, in fact.

The purely literary side of these monuments is not insignificant.

He ceased newspaper work around in 1924 to pursue a purely literary career.