more than

Poet, aspire to more than a few published books and an academic post.

soaked up

It wasn’t long before the avant-garde movement was safely absorbed by academe.

higher school

Poets ranked according to the prestige of the institutions where they taught.

magna cum libri

He was a graduate of that shabby academy called a used bookshop.

my best professors

My best professors were proprietors of used bookshops.