* April 13-Bishop Thomas Percy, literary critic ( died 1811 )

" She noted that her husband's friend Edwin Percy Whipple, a critic, approached Fields to consider its publication.

Another friend, critic Edwin Percy Whipple, objected to the novel's " morbid intensity " with dense psychological details, writing that the book " is therefore apt to become, like Hawthorne, too painfully anatomical in his exhibition of them ".

In the aftermath of the defeat, Cecil Parkin, a former Test bowler and vocal critic of Gilligan's captaincy, wrote a newspaper article suggesting that Hobbs should assume the leadership of the side, albeit under the nominal captaincy of Percy Chapman.

Boston critic Edwin Percy Whipple noted Whittier's moral and ethical tone mingled with sincere emotion.

In the words of Percy Brown, an eminent English art critic and historian, the Golden Gate is " the most lovely piece of art in the whole Kingdom ; it is placed like a jewel, flashing innumerable facets in the handsome setting of its surroundings.

The Lowest Rung ( 1908 ) and The Romance of his Life ( 1921 ) were collections of stories, the latter, her final book, dedicated to the essayist and critic Percy Lubbock.

" Friend and critic Edwin Percy Whipple noted that, even if Hawthorne had written nothing else, The Marble Faun would qualify him as a master of English composition.

Famed cartoonist Percy Crosby, creator of Skippy ( comic strip ) and very outspoken Roosevelt critic, bought a two-page advertisement in the New York Sun to attack it.

Edwin Percy Whipple ( March 8, 1819-June 16, 1886 ) was an American essayist and critic.

* 17 January – Percy Qoboza, journalist, author and critic of the apartheid government, dies on his 50th birthday after a short illness

Famous Lindsays ( in birth order ) were Percy Lindsay ( landscape painter ), Sir Lionel Lindsay ( printmaker, painter and critic ), Norman Lindsay ( painter, sculptor and writer ), Ruby Lindsay ( illustrator ) and Sir Daryl Lindsay ( painter and arts administrator ).

Of the CD reissue, critic Chris May of All About Jazz wrote " The Incredible Jazz Guitar burst onto the US scene in 1960 like a benign hurricane, and it still sounds like a gale almost 50 years later ... Montgomery — empathetically accompanied by pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Percy Heath ( then riding high with the Modern Jazz Quartet ), and drummer Albert Heath — makes the guitar sound like it never had before.

Barbara was a frequent critic of the Bill Clinton administration and wrote a book about then First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton ( 1999 ).

Similarly, when Jean de Schelandre wrote about Banquo in his Stuartide in 1611, he also changed the character by portraying him as a noble and honourable man — the critic D. W. Maskell describes him as “… Schelandre's paragon of valour and virtue ”— probably for reasons similar to Shakespeare's.

American media critic Herbert Schiller wrote: " The concept of cultural imperialism today best describes the sum of the processes by which a society is brought into the modern world system and how its dominating stratum is attracted, pressured, forced, and sometimes bribed into shaping social institutions to correspond to, or even promote, the values and structures of the dominating centre of the system.

The critic G. H. Lewes wrote that it was " an utterance from the depths of a struggling, suffering, much-enduring spirit ", declaring it to be " suspiria de profundis!

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

New Jersey rock critic Jim Testa wrote " Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox ", a vitriolic screed attacking disco that was considered a punk call to arms.

Still attracting strongly negative reactions, in the 1890s Munch did begin to receive some understanding of his artistic goals, as one critic wrote, " With ruthless contempt for form, clarity, elegance, wholeness, and realism, he paints with intuitive strength of talent the most subtle visions of the soul.

Munch returned to Christiania in 1897 where he also received grudging acceptance, where one critic wrote, " A fair number of these pictures have been exhibited before.

" The host wrote to the critic, " Dear Miss Van Horne: You bitch.

His student ( and critic ), Schopenhauer, wrote:

Film critic David Thomson wrote of Hawks in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film " Far from the the meek purveyor of Hollywood forms, he always chose to turn them upside down, To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, ostensibly an adventure and a thriller, are really love stories.

" Ironically ," wrote theatre critic Lucy Komisar, " possibly his only true book ... about a successful author who is shown to be a fraud.

The Time magazine critic wrote: " As Reed's Soviet nemesis, novelist Jerzy Kosinski acquits himself nicely – a tundra of ice against Reed's all-American fire.

A contemporary French critic wrote, " A magic power transported us into the forests which for so many years this man of genius has trod.

"... the music has an exotic frothiness and the string settings are among the most gorgeous in rock history ," wrote music critic Dave Marsh, who co-edited the book.

In a 2002 story for the Chicago Daily Record, Mark Guarino, the newspaper's music critic, wrote that "' Forever Changes ' is a touchstone for serious pop fanatics ..." He added that, "... the band's first three albums were since rediscovered as visionary classics, all three culminating in ' Forever Changes ' ( Elektra ), the band's 1967 masterpiece of ornate pop.

One prominent French media critic is the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu who wrote among other books On Television ( New Press, 1999 ).

In 1928 the music critic Andre Coeuroy, wrote in the Panorama of Contemporary Music that " perhaps the time is not far off when a composer will be able to represent through recording, music specifically composed for the gramophone " ( Coeuroy 1928, 162 ).

Theophilus Evans, an early critic of the movement, even wrote that it was " the natural Tendency of their Behaviour, in Voice and Gesture and horrid Expressions, to make People mad.

In 2009, English automotive critic Jeremy Clarkson wrote:

During its North American limited theatrical release in 2002, the critic James Berardinelli wrote, " The stories of these ... characters are told in a disgustingly graphic, obscenely offbeat, and caustically funny manner.

One notable critic of the Bridgewater Treatises was Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote Criticism.

" Writing for the Chicago Sun-Times, film critic Roger Ebert wrote " film stars actors of considerable physical appeal, most particularly Penelope Cruz as Silvia.

" Musically the group is intentionally crude and aggressively raw ," wrote critic Lester Bangs in Rolling Stone:

By that December, the term was in circulation to the extent that The New Yorkers Ellen Willis, contrasting her own tastes with those of Flash and fellow critic Nick Tosches, wrote, " Punk-rock has become the favored term of endearment.

British critic Jonathan Woolf has written: " De Greef was, in all respects, an intensely musical, non-sensationalist, eloquent and impressive musician and whilst not being averse to some of the interventionist tactics of his contemporaries ( retouching of the score ) remained sympathetically self-effacing ".

As a critic, he was as searchingly critical as he was sympathetically tolerant.

* 2012 – Hilton Kramer, American critic and essayist ( b. 1928 )

* 1928 – Andrew Sarris, American film critic ( d. 2012 )

In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.

Sir Edmund William Gosse CB ( 21 September 1849 – 16 May 1928 ) was an English poet, author and critic ; the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.

The critic Joseph Bédier ( 1864 – 1938 ) launched a particularly withering attack on stemmatics in 1928.

After parting with Epstein, Buñuel worked as film critic for La Gaceta Literaria ( 1927 ) and Les Cahiers d ' Art ( 1928 ).

To quote from the British Film Institute: "... she was open to new directions in cinema and was not constrained by the middle class shibboleths of " good taste ", unlike her rival C. A. Lejeune, film critic for the Observer newspaper from 1928 to 1960 ".

When music critic Abbe Niles heard the Blue Yodel recordings released by Jimmy Rodgers in 1928 he was impressed by how distinctively black Rodger's Blue Yodel recordings sounded, yodeling and all.

Brooks Atkinson, the theatre critic for The New York Times, reviewed the 1928 Broadway production, and called it " a gorgeous spectacle " with " long stretches of excellent comedy ".

The English theatre critic James Agate published a biography of her in 1928, which echoes the anti-Semitism of his day.

Joseph Hillis Miller, Jr. ( born March 5, 1928 ) is an American literary critic who has been heavily influenced by — and who has heavily influenced — deconstruction.

In a June 16, 1928 article in the Illustrated London News, Wells's good friend and lifelong critic G. K. Chesterton reviewed the book and explained the danger he saw in what Wells was saying about the " general tendency towards establishing a world control.

* Iain Crichton Smith ( 1928 – 1998 ), Scottish poet and critic

Lionel Abrahams ( 11 April 1928 – 31 May 2004 ) was a South African novelist, poet, editor, critic, essayist and publisher.

* John Fraser ( critic ) ( born 1928 ), English / Canadian author, literary theorist, and cultural analyst

Writing in the Gramophone magazine in 1928, the often acerbic British critic and future record producer, Walter Legge, lauded Ruffo's singing, recalling a recital that he had heard the baritone give six years earlier in London.

In 1928, she married writer and art critic Guillermo de Torre, student of the Ultraist movement and expert on Avant-Garde art and literature, whom she had met in Spain when she was 19 years old.

Martin Roger Seymour-Smith ( 24 April 1928 – 1 July 1998 ) was a British poet, literary critic, biographer and astrologer.

Denis Donoghue ( born 1928 ) is an Irish literary critic.

Hilton Kramer ( March 25, 1928 – March 27, 2012 ) was an American art critic and essayist.

Champagne ( 1928 ) is a silent comedy film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on an original story by English writer and critic Walter C. Mycroft.