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Literary critics of English

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C. S. Lewis
British writer, lay theologian, and scholar (1898–1963)
Robert Burns
Scottish poet and lyricist (1759–1796)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
English poet, literary critic and philosopher (1772–1834)
Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, pépiniériste and inventor (born 1939)
Marshall McLuhan
Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)
Matthew Arnold
British poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)
Harold Bloom
American literary critic, scholar, and writer (1930–2019)
Northrop Frye
Canadian literary critic and literary theorist (1912–1991)
Azar Nafisi
Iranian-American writer
M. H. Abrams
American literary theorist (1912–2015)
Carroll Quigley
American historian (1910–1977)
Stanley Fish
American literary theorist and lawyer (born 1938)
William Stokoe
Scholar of American Sign Language (1919–2000)
Charles Blacker Vignoles
British railway engineer (1793–1875)
Marianne Hirsch
American writer
Francis Brinkley
Irish writer (1841-1912)
Maureen Corrigan
American journalist and writer
Murat Belge
Turkish intellectual, academic, translator, literary critic, columnist, civil rights activist, and tour guide
James Wood
literary critic
Denis MacEoin
British academic, scholar and writer (1949–2022)
Kwame Dawes
Ghanian academic
Leon Kellner
English lexicographer, grammarian, and Shakespearian scholar (1859–1928)
George G. Watson
Australian historian and literary critic
George Greenwood
British lawyer and politician (1850-1928)
Brian Boyd
New Zealand scholar of English, literary critic and university teacher (born 1952)
Maria Nikolajeva
Swedish writer
William Deresiewicz
American literary critic
Jane Tompkins
American literary scholar
Minou Reeves
Iranian translator