Literary Critic

This page lists 5,552 biographies of literary critics, covering lives from 600 BC to 2000. Featuring Joan Triadú, René Girard and A. C. Bradley. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Jonathan Culler

b. 1944

Marco Santagata

1947 – 2020

Claire Harman

b. 1957

Katica Ḱulavkova

b. 1951

Frederick Crews

1933 – 2024

Eric Robertson

b. 1965

Carlo Dionisotti

1908 – 1998

Sylvia Huot

b. 1953

Sky Gilbert

b. 1952

Henry Seidel Canby

1878 – 1961

Bogdan Bogdanov

1940 – 2016

Bruce Meyer

b. 1957

Jeremy Hooker

b. 1941

Robert Guy Howarth

1906 – 1974

Carlo L. Golino

1913 – 1991

Wahab Ashrafi

1936 – 2012

C. D. Narasimhaiah

1921 – 2005

Marcia Nardi

1901 – 1990

William Arthur Deacon

1890 – 1977

Anthony Hartley

1925 – 2000

Elías Tormo

1869 – 1957

John Atkins

1916 – 2009

K. S. Venkitachalam

Natalino Sapegno

1901 – 1990

Jean-Didier Wolfromm

1941 – 1994

Naomi Lindstrom

b. 1950

Xu Shoushang

1883 – 1948

Feliks Pašić

1939 – 2010

Vyacheslav Polonsky

1886 – 1932

Samuel A. Tannenbaum

1874 – 1948

Kuriyagawa Hakuson

1880 – 1923

John Worthen

b. 1943

Charles William Wallace

1865 – 1932

Abdul-Nabi Isstaif

b. 1952

S. Rajasekharan

b. 1946

Edward Davison

1898 – 1970

Peter Hollindale

b. 1936

C.H. Prahlada Rao

1923 – 2002

P. N. Furbank

1920 – 2014

N. K. Desam

1936 – 2024

Richard Labonté

1949 – 2022

Philip Heldrich

Anthony West

1914 – 1987

Deborah Porter

b. 1958

Bram Dijkstra

b. 1938

Maria Takolander

b. 1973

Tage Skou-Hansen

1925 – 2015

I. A. Richards

1893 – 1979

Wlad Godzich

b. 1945

Muhammad Ghunaymi Hilal

1917 – 1968

Benjamin T. Spencer

1904 – 1996

Charles R. Larson

1938 – 2021

John Holmes

1904 – 1962

Lawrence Buell

b. 1939

Sydney Brooks

1872 – 1937

Pedro Grases

1909 – 2004

John Campbell Shairp

1819 – 1885

Eva Haldimann

1927 – 2019

Janet Adelman

1941 – 2010

Milo Lompar

b. 1962

Roman Kudlyk

1941 – 2019

Dinah Birch

b. 1953

Stuart Sim

b. 1943

Clemens Petersen

1834 – 1918

Tiberiu Iliescu

1906 – 1978

Niculina Oprea

b. 1957

Robert Torrance

1939 – 2016

Noburu Katagami

1884 – 1928

Paul Cernat

b. 1972

Jacques Ehrmann

1931 – 1972

Carl-Michael Edenborg

b. 1967

Luke Milbourne

1649 – 1720

Adina Hoffman

b. 1967

James W. Tuttleton

1934 – 1998

Ramanlal Joshi

1926 – 2006

John Bailey

1864 – 1931

Gavril Zanetov

1863 – 1934

Lollie Graham

1924 – 2008

Corin Braga

b. 1961

Josiane Kartheiser

b. 1950

William Crary Brownell

1851 – 1928

Alexander Grigorievich Shklyaev

b. 1944

George Edgar Slusser

1939 – 2014

Maynard Mack

1909 – 2001

Irène Heidelberger-Leonard

b. 1944

Karl Kroeber

1926 – 2009

Dumitru Popovici

1902 – 1952

Petro Janura

1911 – 1983

Edwin Berry Burgum

1894 – 1979

Simon-Jérôme Bourlet de Vauxcelles

1733 – 1802

Katherine P. Frank

Claudia L. Johnson

b. 1950

Roberto González Echevarría

b. 1943

Francis Scarfe

1911 – 1986

Robert Langbaum

1924 – 2020

Van Wyck Brooks

1886 – 1963

John Metcalf

b. 1938

Pavel Annenkov

1813 – 1887

Ian Robinson

1944 – 2020

Karen E. Rowe

b. 1945