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Cesare Segre

Cesare Segre (born 4 April 1928 in Verzuolo, Province of Cuneo) is an Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic of Jewish descent, currently the Director of the Texts and Textual Traditions Research Centre of the Institute for Advanced Studies of Pavia (IUSS).

Dirk W. Mosig

Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig (born 1943) is a psychologist, historian, literary critic and ordained Zen monk noted for his critical work on H. P. Lovecraft.

Félix Pita Rodríguez

Félix Pita Rodriguez (1909-1990) was a Cuban journalist, poet and literary critic.

Horace Gregory

Horace Gregory (April 10, 1898 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin – March 11, 1982 in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts) was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis

Machado de Assis was included on American literary critic Harold Bloom's list of the greatest 100 geniuses of literature, alongside writers such as Dante, Shakespeare and Cervantes.

Mario Szenessy

Mario Szenessy (born September 14, 1930 in Veliki Bečkerek, Yugoslavia (today Zrenjanin, Serbia) - died October 11, 1976 in Pinneberg, Germany) was a Hungarian-German author, translator, and literary critic.

Nicola Tanda

Nicola Tanda (born 1928, Sorso, Sardinia) is an Italian philologist and literary critic.

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza (born 1955 in Harare) is a Malawian historian, literary critic, novelist, short-story writer and blogger at The Zeleza Post -.

Pompiliu Constantinescu

Pompiliu Constantinescu (May 17, 1901 – May 9, 1946) was a Romanian literary critic.


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1686 in England

Giles Jacob, English legal writer and literary critic (died 1744)

Ann Birstein

She was married to and later divorced the literary critic Alfred Kazin, with whom she has a daughter, Cathrael Kazin, an executive director at ETS; she is stepmother to professor and author Michael Kazin.

Austin Wright

Austin McGiffert Wright (1922 Yonkers, New York – April 23, 2003 Cincinnati) was a novelist, literary critic and professor emeritus of English at the University of Cincinnati.

Bridgewater, Connecticut

Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963), a long-time town resident, was a literary critic, biographer, and historian.

Colm Tóibín

He has also achieved a reputation as a literary critic: he has edited a book on Paul Durcan, The Kilfenora Teaboy (1997); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); and has written The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950 (1999), with Carmen Callil; a collection of essays, Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodóvar (2002); and a study on Lady Gregory, Lady Gregory's Toothbrush (2002).

Daiches

David Daiches (1912-2005), Scottish literary historian and literary critic

Denmark, Tennessee

Cleanth Brooks, literary critic and professor, was born in Denmark, although some accounts claim he was born in Murray, Kentucky

Dmitry Kuzmin

Dmitry Kuzmin was born in Moscow, son of the architect Vladimir Legoshin and the literary critic Edwarda Kuzmina; among his grandparents were the critic Boris Kuzmin and the prominent literary translator Nora Gal.

Donald Heiney

Some of his distinguished colleagues were novelist Oakley Hall, Victorian scholar and Poet Robert Peters, and Literary Critic Hillis Miller.

Dumitru Panaitescu

:For the literary critic, see Perpessicius.

Dumitru Țepeneag

Opposing the Communist regime from the Left, Dumitru Țepeneag has maintained an independent and individualist position — literary critic Eugen Simion has defined him as "a heretic on the left", and his colleague Paul Cernat as "unclassifiable".

F.D.J. Pangemanann

Some sources report that worked for the Dutch colonial government before retiring and becoming a journalist, but Indonesian writer and literary critic Pramoedya Ananta Toer believes this illogical owing to Pangemanann's young age at his time of death; Toer does, however, allow for the possibility of Pangemanann having become injured in the line of duty, forcing an early retirement.

Ferenc Kölcsey

Ferenc Kölcsey (August 8, 1790, Sződemeter – August 24, 1838) was a Hungarian poet, literary critic, orator, and politician, noted for his support of the liberal current inside the Habsburg Empire.

Ferner Nuhn

Ferner Nuhn (July 25, 1903—April 15, 1989) was an American author, literary critic, and artist born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, the son of William C. and Anna R. Nuhn.

Fourth wall

The metaphor of the fourth wall has been applied by literary critic David Barnett to The Harvard Lampoons parody of The Lord of the Rings when a character breaks the conventions of storytelling by referring to the text itself.

Gianna Manzini

Notable Italian literary figures such as Montale, Elio Vittorini collaborated with Solaria. She married the literary critic of La Nazione, Bruno Fallaci, in 1930, a marriage doomed to early failure.

Hellmuth

Hellmuth Karasek (born 1934), German journalist, literary critic, novelist and author

Herrnstein

Barbara Herrnstein Smith (21st century), American literary critic and theorist

Hiroki Azuma

Azuma launched his career as a literary critic in 1993 with a postmodern style influenced by leading Japanese critics Kojin Karatani and Akira Asada.

Israel Isidor Elyashev

Dr. Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873–1924) was a Jewish neurologist and the first Yiddish literary critic.

Jan Emil Skiwski

Jan Emil Skiwski (13 February 1894, Warsaw - 2 March 1956, Caracas) was a Polish writer, journalist and literary critic.

Katherine Elizabeth Fleming

Fleming is the daughter of the American literary critic John V. Fleming and of the British-born Joan E. Fleming, a prominent priest in the Episcopal diocese of New Jersey and Rector Emerita of Christ Church parish, New Brunswick.

Lamine Diakhate

Lamine Diakhate (born September 16, 1928, in Saint-Louis, Senegal - died 1987) was an author, poet and literary critic of the négritude school and has served his country as a politician and diplomat.

Latin American literature

Latin American authors who figured in prominent literary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon list of the most enduring works of world literature include: Rubén Dário, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Severo Sarduy, Reinaldo Arenas, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, César Vallejo, Miguel Ángel Asturias, José Lezama Lima, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, and Carlos Drummond de Andrade.

Leavis

Q. D. Leavis (1906-1981), English literary critic and essayist

Lemoine

Roger Le Moine (1933-2004), Canadian professor of literature and literary critic

Leo Spitzer

Leo Spitzer (7 February 1887 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – 16 September 1960 in Forte dei Marmi, Italy) was an Austrian Romanist and Hispanist, and an influential and prolific literary critic.

Litomyšl

Litomyšl is the birthplace of Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer, August Jilek (1819–1898), physician and oceanographer, Arne Novák, critic and historian of literature, Hubert Gordon Schauer, literary critic, and Karel Píč (1920-1995), Esperanto writer, author of the innovative autobiographical novel "La Litomiŝla Tombejo" (The Litomyšl Cemetery).

Ludolf Wienbarg

Christian Ludolf Wienbarg (25 December 1802 - 8 January 1872) was a German journalist and literary critic, one of the founders of the Young Germany movement during the Vormärz period.

Luis García Montero

Luis García Montero (Granada, 4 December 1958) is a Spanish poet and literary critic, as well as a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.

Madeleine Doran

Madeleine Doran (August 12, 1905 – October 19, 1996) was an American literary critic and poet who taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from the early 1930s until her retirement in the 1970s.

Nicolas Bréhal

Nicolas Bréhal (Gérald Solnitzki) (born 6 December 1952 Paris - May 31, 1999 Levallois-Perret) was a French novelist and literary critic.

Óscar Coello

Oscar Coello, (born in Piura, April 15, 1947) is a Peruvian poet, professor and literary critic.

Robert Warren

Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), American poet, novelist, and literary critic

Salvador Espriu

During his acceptance of the International Catalonia prize, renowned literary critic Harold Bloom called Espriu 'an extraordinary poet by any international standard', and later said 'The Nobel committee is guilty of many errors, and one of those was not to have given the prize to Salvador Espriu.

Scheck

Denis Scheck (born 1964), German literary critic and journalist

Sedgwick, Maine

Doris Grumbach, novelist, biographer, literary critic and essayist

Silvian Iosifescu

Silvian Iosifescu (21 January 1917 - May 2006) was a literary critic, educator, translator and Romanian literature professor at the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest.

The Infinities

"In the 1980s, Banville challenged his readers to imagine a Nabokov novel based on the life of a Gödel or an Einstein," says Irish literary critic Val Nolan in The Sunday Business Post.

The Two Cultures

The literary critic F. R. Leavis was critical of this work, calling Snow a "public relations man" for the scientific establishment in an essay published in The Spectator, which was widely decried in the British press.

Thurnscoe

Andrew Mangham, literary critic and author of several published books, was born in Thurnscoe in 1979.

Tropological reading

Literary critic Henry Louis Gates also defines tropological revision in relation to African-American literature, in his work The Signifying Monkey.

Un Poco Loco

Literary critic Harold Bloom included this performance on his short list of the greatest works of twentieth-century American art.

Van Kempen

Michiel van Kempen (born 1957), Dutch writer, art historian and literary critic

Vladimir Muravyov

Vladimir Sergeyevich Muravyov (1939–2001), Russian translator and literary critic

Wacław Iwaniuk

Educated in Warsaw and Cambridge, England, a poet, literary critic and essayist for various Polish émigré newspapers in Canada and abroad.

Wattpad

During the summer of 2012, Wattpad in collaboration with Margaret Atwood, Canadian poet/novelist/literary critic, held the "Attys"; the first major poetry contest offering a chance to poets on Wattpad to compete against each other in one of two categories, either as an "Enthusiast" or a "Competitor".

When the Emperor was Divine

Writing for The New York Times, literary critic Michiko Kakutani stated "though the book is flawed by a bluntly didactic conclusion, the earlier pages testify to the author's lyric gifts and narrative poise".