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LITERARY CRITIC

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A critic of literature

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("literary critic" is a kind of...):

critic (a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art)

Instance hyponyms:

Arnold; Matthew Arnold (English poet and literary critic (1822-1888))

Brooks; Van Wyck Brooks (United States literary critic and historian (1886-1963))

Ciardi; John Anthony Ciardi; John Ciardi (United States poet and critic (1916-1986))

Derrida; Jacques Derrida (French philosopher and critic (born in Algeria); exponent of deconstructionism (1930-2004))

Frye; Herman Northrop Frye; Northrop Frye (Canadian literary critic interested in the use of myth and symbolism (1912-1991))

Hazlitt; William Hazlitt (English essayist and literary critic (1778-1830))

H. L. Mencken; Henry Louis Mencken; Mencken (United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956))

I. A. Richards; Ivor Armstrong Richards; Richards (English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979))

Sir Stephen Harold Spender; Spender; Stephen Spender (English poet and critic (1909-1995))

Lionel Trilling; Trilling (United States literary critic (1905-1975))

Carl Clinton Van Doren; Carl Van Doren; Van Doren (United States writer and literary critic (1885-1950))

Edmund Wilson; Wilson (United States literary critic (1895-1972))

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