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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
composer, pianist, music critic
Judith Butler (born 1956)
philosopher, sociologist, literary critic, women's rights activist, journalist, art theorist, gender theorist, social scientist
Terry Eagleton (born 1943)
literary critic, literary historian, literary theorist, literary scholar, man of letters
H. R. F. Keating (1926-2011)
literary critic
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
poet, literary critic, composer, translator, autobiographer, economist, journalist, radio personality, literary historian
![Gaudier-Brzeska, a memoir [by] Ezra Pound](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5911307-M.jpg)
![The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6699609-M.jpg)
![Antheil and the Treatise on harmony, with supplementary notes 1927 [Leather Bound]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8768296-M.jpg)
Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950)
poet, translator, philosopher, essayist, literary critic, professor, politician, civil servant, revolutionary, yogi, principal, editor, Vice-principal
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
physician, poet, playwright, literary critic, essayist, polygraph, dramaturge, theatrical producer
![The micellaneous [sic] works of Dr. Goldsmith](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/6943971-M.jpg)
![Classic poems from the writings of Goldsmith [and others]](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/11851530-M.jpg)
![The miscellaneous works of OLiver Goldsmith [ed. by S. Rose].](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/8297032-M.jpg)
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
columnist, poet, literary critic, journalist
