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Key People
Samuel Johnson
English author
Afrânio Coutinho
Brazilian writer and literary critic
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Mary Novello Clarke
English author
A. Bartlett Giamatti
American baseball commissioner
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist and critic
Alexander Pope
English author
Paul de Man
American literary critic
Edward Gibbon
British historian
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
René Girard
French-born literary critic and scholar
Matthew Arnold
British critic
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
