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Born	June 11, 1920 • New York City • New York
Died	May 5, 1993 (aged 72) • New York City • New York
Subjects Of Study	literature

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Edward Said

American professor and literary critic

Elaine Showalter

American literary critic and teacher

Lionel Trilling

American critic

Carolyn Heilbrun

American author and literary critic

Kenneth Burke

American critic

W.C. Brownell

American critic

Virginia Woolf

British writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

Germaine de Staël

French-Swiss author

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

François Mauriac

French author

J.M. Coetzee

South African author