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Also Known As	Herman Northrop Frye
Born	July 14, 1912 • Sherbrooke • Canada
Died	January 23, 1991 (aged 78) • Toronto • Canada
Notable Works	“Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays” • “Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake”
Subjects Of Study	literary criticism • John Milton

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Canadian poet and anthologist

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American poet

Hédi Bouraoui

Tunisian-Canadian poet and scholar

Eugène Seers

French-Canadian poet

Camille Roy

Camille Roy

Canadian literary critic

Mary Novello Clarke

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Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Afrânio Coutinho

Brazilian writer and literary critic

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

British writer

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

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T.S. Eliot

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish dramatist and critic

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Alexander Pope

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