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

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; exponent of deconstructionism (born in 1930)

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)