T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

male, deceased (1965)
Tradition and the Individual Talent, The Cocktail Party, Eliot family, Writer-illustrator, Murder in the Cathedral, From st. louis, missouri…Literarycritic
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

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
professor, Cornell University alumni, Shakespeare academia, from New York City, Berg Professor, Literarycritic…literary criticism, Literary, Literary critic of English, cultural critic, Marxist literary criticism
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

Henry James

male, deceased (1916)
death by stroke, author, writer, Irish-American, point of view, British…Literarycritic, literary criticism
Henry James, OM (–), son of theologian Henry James Sr. and brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an...
Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens

male, 60 years old
journalist, atheist, Atheist activist, naturalized citizen of the United States, American, Slate…Literarycritic
Christopher Eric Hitchens (born April 13, 1949, in Portsmouth , England ) is a journalist, author and literary critic. Hitchens received degrees in...
George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
vegetarian, Playwright, teetotaller, Literarycritic, oscar, literary criticism…music critic
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
Edward Said

Edward Said

male, deceased (2003)
postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, postcolonial theory, Princeton University alumni, Academic, Arab American…Literarycritic, Literary theorist, Literary theory
Edward Wadie Saïd was a Palestinian-American literary theorist and outspoken Palestinian activist. He was University Professor of English and C...
Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson

male, deceased (1972)
poet, Princeton University alumni, tax resister, Literarycritic, literary criticism, American
Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 - June 12 1972) was an American writer, noted chiefly for his literary criticism. Most literary experts considered...
Northrop Frye

Northrop Frye

male, deceased (1991)
doctor of divinity, Doctor of Letters, Minister of the United Church of Canada, philosopher, twentieth century, Canadian…Literary critic of English, Literarycritic
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...
Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

male, deceased (1888)
Victorian poetry, from Laleham, cultural critic, Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford…Literarycritic
Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 - 15 April 1888) was an English poet and cultural critic, who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of...
John Updike

John Updike

male, 77 years old
Pennsylvania writer, Massachusetts writer, Literarycritic, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, rabbit…literary criticism
John Hoyer Updike (born March 18 1932 in Shillington, Pennsylvania) is an American writer. Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit series ("Rabbit,...