Throughout this erudite book, Donaldson is in careful conversation with other Jonson scholars, writers and critics.

If Mr. Norfolk had added a few people we could care about to this erudite and pyrotechnic book, it would have swept the board.

Does the intellectual press even review the many difficult but erudite books dealing with these issues in a non-trivial populist way?

Reading Shakespeare's Sonnets is an impressive work and there is a lifetime of enjoyment to be had from this loquacious and erudite book.

Nonetheless, "Near a Thousand Tables" is an erudite and surprising book with many eye-opening pleasures.

He bought libraries of erudite books, glanced through them with contempt.

The result is "a witty and characteristically erudite book," David McKitterick said here in 1997.

This erudite and exhilarating book explores how culture creates transvestites and transvestites create culture.

A subtle, erudite and important book.

"Internal Bleeding" is an erudite, readable and well-argued book.