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…NewCriticism
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM (September 26 1888 – January 4 1965), was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize for Li...
Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks

male, deceased (1994)
Methodist, rhodes scholar, Literary critic, NewCriticism, paradox, American…formalist criticism
Cleanth Brooks was an influential American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the...
Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

male (Guthrie)
Louisiana State University faculty, NewCriticism, American, rhodes scholar, Bone cancer death, All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from...
I. A. Richards

I. A. Richards

male, deceased (1979)
Rhetorician, philosopher, Literary critic, NewCriticism, American, English…Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism
Ivor Armstrong Richards (26 February, 1893 in Sandbach, Cheshire - 7 September, 1979 in Cambridge) was an influential English literary critic and...
F. R. Leavis

F. R. Leavis

male, deceased (1978)
Old Persean, Order of the Companions of Honour, Literary critic, NewCriticism, English, From Cambridge
Frank Raymond Leavis CH (July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century. He...
William Empson

William Empson

male, deceased (1984)
Academic of the University of Sheffield, English, NewCriticism, Literary critic, Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge, poet
Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, reckoned by some to be the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and...
Marshall McLuhan

Marshall McLuhan

male, deceased (1980)
Rhetoric theorist, media theory, Futurologist, Literary critic, media ecology, Educator…NewCriticism
Herbert Marshall McLuhan CC (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English...

René Wellek

male, deceased (1995)
School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London, From Prague, German, comparative, czech…NewCriticism, Semiotic literary criticism, New Critic
René Wellek was a Czech-German comparative literary critic. Wellek, along with Erich Auerbach, is remembered as an eminent product of the Central E...
Monroe Beardsley

Monroe Beardsley

male, deceased (1985)
philosopher, Literary critic, literary criticism, NewCriticism, American, Aesthetics
Monroe Curtis Beardsley (10 December 1915-September 1985) was an American philosopher of art. He is best known for his work in aesthetics as a...
Wayne C. Booth

Wayne C. Booth

male, deceased (2005)
Irony theorist, Rhetoric theorist, American, Rhetorician, University of Chicago alumni, University of Chicago faculty…NewCriticism, New Critic
Wayne Clayson Booth (February 22, 1921 - October 10, 2005) was an American literary critic. He was the George M. Pullman Distinguished Service...