| |  | Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li... |  | Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a... |  | Henry James, OM (–), son of theologian Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an... |  | Herman Northrop Frye, CC, MA (Oxon), DD, D.Litt., FRSC (July 14, 1912 - January 23, 1991), a Canadian, was one of the most distinguished literary... |  | Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and C... |  | Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 - June 12 1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. Most literary experts considered... |  | Jacques Derrida (July 15, 1930 - October 8, 2004) was an Algerian-born French philosopher, known as the founder of deconstruction. His voluminous... |  | Roland Barthes (November 12, 1915 - March 25, 1980) (pronounced) was a French literary critic, literary and social theorist, philosopher, and... |  | Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the F... |  | Samuel Johnson LL.D. (13 December 1784), often referred to simply as Dr Johnson, is one of England's best known literary figures : a poet,... | |
