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Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)
poet, art critic, essayist, translator, literary critic, critic, journalist
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Lycée Saint-Louis
Margaret Atwood (born 1939)
poet, pedagogue, literary critic, essayist, inventor
- Victoria University, Radcliffe College
Ralph Ellison (1914-1994)
essayist, autobiographer, literary critic, music critic, journalist, critic, literary scholar
- Tuskegee University
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
poet, literary critic, essayist, philosopher, academic
- University of London, University of Ibadan
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
essayist, autobiographer, diarist, literary critic, publisher, women's rights activist
- King's College London
Robert Graves (1895-1985)
poet, translator, playwright, military personnel, literary critic, mythographer, theatre critic
- King's College School, University of Oxford
Stephen Greenblatt (born 1943)
literary historian, literary critic, journalist, Shakespearean scholar, literary theorist
- Yale University, University of Cambridge
Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
poet, historian, translator, journalist, anthropologist, literary critic, essayist, collector of fairy tales, folklorist, scholar
- University of Oxford, University of St Andrews