Critic William Kuhn argued that much of his fiction can be read as " the memoirs he never wrote ", revealing the inner life of a politician for whom the norms of Victorian public life appeared to represent a social straitjacket – particularly with regard to his allegedly " ambiguous sexuality.

Critic William Baer notes that throughout his career " he constantly rose to the challenge of his own aspirations ", adding that " he was a pioneer and visionary who greatly affected the history of both stage and cinema ".

Critic William Michael Rossetti considered Leaves of Grass a classic along the lines of the works of William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri.

He gave assistance to William Beloe in one or two articles in the British Critic, and probably wrote also in the Analytical Review and the Critical Review.

* F. H. Armstrong, " William Lyon Mackenzie, First Mayor of Toronto: A Study of a Critic in Power ", Canadian Historical Review 48 ( 1967 )

Also that year, the Boston Critic dedicated a special issue to Lowell on his seventieth birthday to recollections and reminiscences by his friends, including former presidents Hayes and Benjamin Harrison and British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone as well as Alfred Tennyson and Francis Parkman.

Critic William Winter said, “ He was followed as a marvel.

Critic Stephen Burt at the Boston Review commented: " William Carlos Williams and Emily Dickinson together taught Armantrout how to dismantle and reassemble the forms of stanzaic lyric — how to turn it inside out and backwards, how to embody large questions and apprehensions in the conjunctions of individual words, how to generate productive clashes from arrangements of small groups of phrases.

Critic Harold Bloom remarked several years later that Fields ', " croaking his ghastly dirge to the uncertain sound of his dulcimer, is a parodic version of the Bard of Sensibility, a figure out of the primitivism of Thomas Gray or William Blake.

Critic William Lawrence Schroeder described Holmes's prose style as " attractive " in that it " made no great demand on the attention of the reader.

" William Graham Sumner: Critic of Progressive Liberalism.

" William Graham Sumner as a Critic of the Spanish American War.

Critic William Ruhlman agreed though did not consider the album as strong.

Critic William Ruhlman agreed, writing that the album " is a highly referential work from an artist who started where most end and has been earnestly seeking the right direction ever since.

* 1985 – William Dudley for The Mysteries, The Real Inspector Hound, The Critic, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Mutiny

Critic William Fulwiler argues that Edgar Rice Burroughs ' At the Earth's Core was one of Lovecraft's primary inspirations for " The Nameless City ", citing " the reptile race, the tunnel to the interior of the earth, and the ' hidden world of eternal day '" as elements common to both tales.

* William Grimes, Hayden Carruth, Poet and Critic, Dies at 87, New York Times, 30 September 2008

" Opposition parliamentarians dismissed the report as a scare tactic, while Liberal Environment Critic David McGuinty argued that the study was misleading, saying that it did not properly examine international emission trading and ignored jobs to be created through the " green economy ".

In The British Critic for May, 1816, the reviewer dismissed the work as " the madness of a poetic mind.

Critic Jeffrey M. Anderson of the San Francisco Examiner said, " Each episode is beautifully crafted, with an eye on lush, shadowy visuals and a pulsing, jazz-like rhythm ... the show is almost consistently funny, consistently brilliant, and, best of all, compulsively watchable.

Critic Henry Sheehan described the film as a retelling of Peter Pan from the perspective of a Lost Boy ( Elliott ): E. T.

Screwattack named it the second worst Mario game of all time., while others were much more positive, like The Video Game Critic, who gave it an A rating, calling it " a satisfying mix of strategy and arcade action " and " a must have for Virtual Boy owners.

As Critic Walter Kerr points out: `` Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative ''.

Critic Henry Prunières wrote, “ From the opening measures, we are plunged into a world in which Ravel has but rarely introduced us .”

Critic David Hurwitz offers an alternative explanation for the piece's structure: that " Jupiter " is the centrepoint of the suite and that the movements on either side are in mirror images.

Critic Adam Roberts said of the novel: “ It is really quite hard to respond to this masterful book, except by engaging with its political content ; and yet we need to make the effort to see past the ideological to the formal and thematic if we are fully to appreciate the splendour of Heinlein's achievement here .”

Critic John Krewson lauded the work of Ida Lupino, and wrote, " As a screenwriter and director, Lupino had an eye for the emotional truth hidden within the taboo or mundane, making a series of B-styled pictures which featured sympathetic, honest portrayals of such controversial subjects as unmarried mothers, bigamy, and rape ... in The Hitch-Hiker, arguably Lupino's best film and the only true noir directed by a woman, two utterly average middle-class American men are held at gunpoint and slowly psychologically broken by a serial killer.

Critic, Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that Dion's vocals " are back at top of their game " and that she was " getting back to pop basics and performing at a level unheard in a while.

Critic Carmen Birkle wrote: " Her multicultural self is thus reflected in a multicultural text, in multi-genres, in which the individual cultures are no longer separate and autonomous entities but melt into a larger whole without losing their individual importance ".

Critic Zack Handlen remarked, " This is still early Dick, which means that while interesting concepts are introduced, and there ’ s some play with identity -- Jennings develops an overwhelming faith in the prescience of his past self, a faith which most people can ’ t ever have in their present versions, and by the end he ’ s even referring to that past guy as a separate person -- the primary focus is nabbing you and keeping you entertained.

Critic Barbara Russano Hanning writes that Striggio's verses are less subtle than those of Rinuccini, although the structure of Striggio's libretto is more interesting.

" Critic Janet Maslin wrote of Terence Stamp's work, " Stamp plays the title role furiously, with single-minded intensity, wild blue eyes and a stentorian roar shown off in the film's early moments ... Glimpses of young, dreamily beautiful Stamp and his no less imposing latter-day presence are used by Soderbergh with touching efficacy.

Critic Eleanor Ringel Gillespie of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution concluded that " There are more challenging movies around.

Critic Luke Y. Thompson of The New Times stated that " defenders of the film have argued that it's actually pro-woman, due to the fact that the female lead wins in the end, which is sort of like saying that cockfights are pro-rooster because there's always one left standing ".

Critic Alexei Korotyukov remarked: " Paradjanov made films not about how things are, but how they would have been had he been God.

Critic Janet Maslin was dismissive of the film, and wrote, " Today, in the dazzling, superficial style that Mr. Friedkin has so thoroughly mastered, it's the car chases and shootouts and eye-catching settings that are truly the heart of the matter ".

Critic Vincent Leo praised Penn's performance, noting, " While Oldman gets the accolades for his energetic performance, it is really Penn's inner demons that provides the film with the right amount of conflict, always letting us be aware that fine lines are the difference between life and death, as well as right and wrong, out in the streets of New York.

Critic Roger Ebert gave the movie three stars out of four, saying " Gibson gives an interesting performance, showing a man trying to think his way out of a crisis, and Sinise makes a good foil: Here are two smart men playing a game with deadly stakes.

" Top Critic Roger Ebert went further, saying of the film " In a genre where a lot of movies are retreads of the predictable, ' Deep Blue Sea ' keeps you guessing.

Critic Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times: " The film is a masterful achievement on all the technical levels -- it does an especially good job of convincing us with its Asian locations -- but the best moments are the human ones, the conversations, the exchanges of trust, the waiting around, the sudden fear, the quick bursts of violence, the desperation.

Critic Roger Ebert said that " Pedro Almodóvar's films are an acquired taste, and with High Heels I am at last beginning to acquire it.

Critic Richard Skorman wrote, " Forsyth does a good job of making light of the tender part in teenage psyche, and his friends and little sister in particular are quirky and lovable.

* Maneker, Marion, " The King James Version: Critic James Wolcott, the reigning monarch of the literary put-down, is about to publish his first novel, and legions of his victims are already sharpening their knives ", New York magazine, June 11, 2001

Critic Adrian Denning, in his review of the album, compliments, " Both the vocals and guitar are utterly beautiful.

They are Natasha and Crispin Critic, two high brow art critics from London.

Critic Anne Midgette of the New York Times has noted that Argento's operas tend to be very well received upon their premieres, but they lack an " easy popular hook " and are rarely revived.