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Also Known As Wayne Clayson Booth
Born February 22, 1921 • American Fork • Utah
Died October 10, 2005 (aged 84) • Chicago • Illinois
Founder “Critical Inquiry”
Notable Works “Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent” • “Now Don’t Try to Reason With Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age” • “The Rhetoric of Fiction”
Movement / Style Chicago critics
Helen Archibald Clarke
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T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
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William Dean Howells, 1913
William Dean Howells
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Malcolm Cowley
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Anthony Boucher
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Annette Kolodny
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James McKeen Cattell
James McKeen Cattell
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Jessie Redmon Fauset
Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Evert Augustus Duyckinck
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Cyrus Adler
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A.J.M. Smith
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Norman Jay Colman
United States official
Child, Francis J.
Francis J. Child
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Barbara Christian
Caribbean-American educator and critic
John Spencer Bassett
John Spencer Bassett
American historian
R.S. Crane
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Elder Olson
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic