premise: I called the other afternoon on my old friend , Graves Moreland , the Anglo-American literary <mask> - his mother was born in Ohio - who lives alone in a fairy-tale cottage on the Upson Downs , raising hell and peacocks , the former only when the venerable gentleman becomes an angry old man about the state of literature or something else that is dwindling and diminishing , such as human stature , hope , and humor .
hypothesis: the proper context for <mask> here should be a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art