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From an early age he adopted a foppish, bohemian style, and in due course, having thrown over his studies in engineering and the possibility of a legal career, he became a man of letters.
ECONOMIST: Literary lives
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The settings, too, are interiors: cramped rooms, generally lent by understanding friends after Coleridge had left his wife and children in the Lake District and decided to become a man of letters in London.
ECONOMIST: English poets
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It should come as no surprise that Baker, a distinguished man of letters, should nevertheless be interested in the lees of eroticism.
NEWYORKER: Blue Period