Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1969 – Reece Shearsmith, English actor, writer, and producer

* English writer Honor Tracy lived there until her death in 1989

* 1934 – Piers Anthony, English writer

* 1984 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )

* 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer ( b. 1724 )

* 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and writer ( d. 1649 )

* 1984 – Dane Brookes, English actor and writer

* 1968 – Adrian Lester, English actor, director, and writer

* Adrian Edmondson ( born 1957 ), English actor, comedian, director, writer and musician

* Adrian Truss, English actor, voice actor and comedy writer

* Adrian Weale ( born 1964 ), English writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer

* 1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier ( d. 1935 )

* 1983 – Colin Griffiths, English comedian and writer

* 1686 – Eustace Budgell, English writer ( d. 1737 )

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1913 – Peter Kemp, English soldier and writer ( d. 1993 )

* 1980 – Russell Kane English comedian, actor, and writer

* 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor, writer and director

* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* 1849 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( d. 1903 )

* 1927 – Kenneth Tynan, English critic and writer ( d. 1980 )

* 1839 – Walter Pater, English essayist and critic ( d. 1894 )

* 1850 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* 1900 – V. S. Pritchett, English author and critic ( d. 1997 )

* 1985 – Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic ( b. 1922 )

Reviewing the volume, critic Philip Toynbee declared that " Thomas is the greatest living poet in the English language ".

* 1866 – Roger Fry, English artist and art critic ( d. 1934 )

A. Richards, English literary critic ( d. 1979 )

Polish literary critic and University of Warsaw professor Paweł Dudziak remarked that " in spite of the unclear role of its author, The Painted Bird is an achievement in English literature.

* 1779 – William Warburton, English critic and bishop ( b. 1698 )

Chalker earned a BA degree in English from Towson University in Towson, Maryland, where he was a theater critic on the school newspaper, The Towerlight.

* 1995 – Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor ( b. 1924 )

" He later argued that the poem " is probably the most original poem about poetry in English, and the first hint outside his notebooks and letters that a major critic lies hidden in the twenty-five-year-old Coleridge.

Amongst those who followed these ideas were the English poets and painters that constituted the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who, from about 1850, opposed the dominant trend of industrial Victorian England, because of their " opposition to technical skill without inspiration " They were influenced by the writings of the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819 – 1900 ), who had strong feelings about the role of art in helping to improve the lives of the urban working classes, in the rapidly expanding industrial cities of Britain.

* 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic ( d. 1901 )

In 2009, English automotive critic Jeremy Clarkson wrote:

* 1896 – Edmund Blunden, English poet, author and critic ( d. 1974 )

* Os Guinness ( born 1941 ), English author and social critic

* 1784 – James Henry Leigh Hunt, English Romantic critic, essayist, and poet ( d. 1859 )

The English author, critic, and biographer, Samuel Johnson, was convinced that Macpherson was " a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries ".

* 1881 – Clive Bell, English critic ( d. 1964 )

* 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English poet and critic ( d. 1917 )

A recent critic, who is a legal as well as a literary scholar, argues that Old Mortality not only reflects the evolution of Scottish nationalism but also invokes a foundational moment in British sovereignty, namely, the Act of Habeas corpus ( also known as the Great Writ ), passed by the English Parliament in 1679.