Possible Clues:

• English Literature is difficult, ultimately for the chosen few
• Title is arranged for a select few
• Priest abstaining is held to be snobbish
• Favouring high society, priest lives in dry environment
• One showing superior attitude
• Some excel — it is those one snobbishly prefers
• High-hat
• Titles one devised for top people
• Its tile (anag.)
• Some feel it is terrible to be favouring the chosen few