[name the author] man of letters

C.S.Lewis

Which other man of letters is being discussed below?

'The lady was present at his introduction to one of the late Mrs Montague's literary parties, when Mrs Digby herself, with several still younger ladies, almost immediately surrounded our Colossus of literature with more wonder than politeness, and while contemplating him, as if he had been some monster from the deserts of Africa, he said to them, "Ladies, I am tame; you may stroke me".'

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