Talk:William Combe

Miscellaneous writer ?
I've often seen this term used to describe certain authors, but what does it mean ? A writer who concentrates on no particular genre but works in all, would be my guess. Shakespeare never wrote essays, Keats didn't produce biography, Thurber never wrote a novel, Maugham didn't write poetry, Wolff didn't write humour. An author who does all this seems to be of the 'miscellaneous' type, but the word carries connotations of triviality. A dabbler, rather than a serious artist. Is this correct ? 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:51ED:F309:1825:A132 (talk) 21:04, 17 March 2018 (UTC)