Possible Clues:

• Book set?
• Men of letters, burning with irate rambling
• Some highbrow types
• Great readers left with repetition? That's not on
• Somewhat polite, rational, well-read types
• Liberal repetition not on for well-educated types
• Learned people illuminated the period and recalled it
• Learned people, men of letters
• The bookish intelligentsia
• New rite framed by a lot of old language scholars