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Born October 16, 1906 • Kentucky
Died May 10, 1994 (aged 87) • New Haven • Connecticut
Movement / Style New Criticism
Subjects Of Study dramatic literature • novel • poetry
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
American author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer
Massimo Bontempelli
Italian poet
Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
French author
José Régio
Portuguese author and critic
Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655
Jean Chapelain
French author
Meena Alexander
Indian poet and teacher
Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author