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Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977)
poet, zoologist, translator, playwright, autobiographer, lepidopterist, literary critic, journalist, chess composer, chess player, literary scholar, entomologist, man of letters
Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990)
journalist, translator, literary critic
Henry Stephens Salt (1851-1939)
essayist, literary critic, biographer, naturalist
Charles Nodier (1780-1844)
journalist, lexicographer, librarian, poet, entomologist, translator, literary critic, essayist, philologist
Max Beerbohm (1872-1956)
caricaturist, poet, essayist, watercolorist, painter, literary critic, illustrator, journalist, comedian, drawer
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
poet, literary critic
![Poems and ballads [and] Atalanta in Calydon](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/102889-M.jpg)
![Swinburne replies: Notes on poems and reviews, Under the microscope [and] Dedicatory epistle](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/9905262-M.jpg)
Gustave Lanson (1857-1934)
historian, pedagogue, professor, literary critic, art historian, romanist
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)
poet, diplomat, literary critic, journalist, critic, translator, politician, explorer, lyricist
![Beauty and the beast [a story of old Russia]; and, Tales of home](https://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/5626740-M.jpg)
