Ross and his magazine slowly became famous among literati and newspapermen. Many painters also wrote poetry, especially in the scholar-official or literati tradition. Feudal China had four classes&colon; Confucian literati and landlords, peasants, artisans and merchants. Besides emperors, many Tang literati were interested in alchemy. During Song dynasty, the connection between painters and literati, paintings and poem is closer. The Confucian literati and landlords were at the top of Chinese social structure. Among many of the more secular literati its groundwork of orthodox Christianity was discomfiting. An important market seems to have been the "literati" or scholar-gentleman class. The poem's groundwork of orthodox Christianity discomfited many of the more secular "literati". Lien Chan was descended from a family of literati. Parisian literati, also produced several biographies and monographs on him. In the South, the ancient classics absorbed the attention of the literati. Edgar Allan Poe described Sedgwick in his "The Literati of New York City" (1846). It arose in interaction with "educated literati". Northumberland had also connections to the "literati".