| But The Wandering Shadows doesn't pretend to possess a drawing-room erudition. |
| To common people, impressed by his learning, erudition and experience, all this looks puzzling. |
| The poems show his erudition to be wide, his historical knowledge sometimes esoteric. |
| For all the vast erudition which so impressed his contemporaries, he wrote disappointingly little. |
| He was a brave and energetic traveller, an art historian of astonishing erudition, and a profoundly perceptive connoisseur of civilisations. |
| Anyone wishing a general introduction to this fascinating period and one which is told with erudition and understanding should look no further. |
