Some consider literary theory merely an aesthetic concern, as articulated, for example, in Joseph Addison's notion of a critic as one who helps understand and interpret literary works: " A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellences than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

* February 23 – Joseph Warton, English academic and literary critic ( b. 1722 )

* April – Joseph Warton, English poet and critic ( d. 1800 )

Roger Joseph Ebert (; born June 18, 1942 ) is an American journalist, film critic and screenwriter, who has been described by Forbes as " the most powerful pundit in America ".

Current well-known economists include 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences winner Paul Krugman, a public intellectual and advocate of modern liberal policies ; Alan Greenspan, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Ben Bernanke, the current Chairman of the Federal Reserve ; Joseph Stiglitz, an American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics winner, critic of inequality and the governance of globalization, and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

* List of Washington University faculty and staff: economist and Nobel Memorial Prize winner Douglass North ; husband and wife biochemists and co-Nobel Prize winners Carl and Gerty Cori ; physicist and Nobel Prize winner Arthur Holly Compton ; novelists Stanley Elkin and William Gass ; poets Carl Phillips and Mary Jo Bang ; architect Fumihiko Maki ; neurologist and Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi-Montalcini ; sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson ; Poets Laureate Howard Nemerov and Mona Van Duyn ; sociologist and " outlaw Marxist " Alvin Ward Gouldner ; attorney, former Counsel to Vice-President Al Gore and former Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson ; writer and culture critic Gerald Early ; Economist, and former Chair of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisors, Murray Weidenbaum ; chemist Joseph W. Kennedy, co-discoverer of the element plutonium ; computer scientist Jonathan S. Turner, internationally renowned expert in computer networking ; computer scientist Raj Jain, pioneer in the field of network congestion ; and Law Professor Troy A. Paredes, currently on leave as a commissioner of the SEC.

She selected poems for her third collection Belaya Staya ( White Flock ) in 1917, a volume which poet and critic Joseph Brodsky later described as writing of personal lyricism tinged with the “ note of controlled terror ”.

" Indeed, in 1998, after researching the Pulitzer Prize for Music, music critic Kyle Gann wrote that the awards panel often included " the same seven names over and over as judges ": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman ( now deceased ), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands.

Some famous people who have lived in Warren are Minnesota Supreme Court Justice Julius J. Olson, Minnesota Chief Justice Oscar Knutson, ophthalmologist Harold Scheie, founder of the Scheie Eye Institute, abstract painter Gerome Kamrowski, Civil Rights activist Joseph Steffan, and rock critic Paul Nelson.

He abandoned his activities as a critic in 1887 and began composing once more ; perhaps not unexpectedly, the first songs he wrote after his compositional hiatus ( to poems by Goethe, Joseph von Eichendorff and Joseph Viktor von Scheffel ) emphasized themes of strength and resolution under adversity.

The French critic Joseph Bédier likewise became disenchanted with the stemmatic method, and concluded that the editor should choose the best available text, and emend it as little as possible.

In 1908, the Austrian architectural critic Joseph August Lux wrote a book called Künstlerische Kodakgeheimnisse ( Artistic Secrets of the Kodak ) in which he championed the use of the camera for its cultural potential.

Joseph Warton ( April 1722 – 23 February 1800 ) was an English academic and literary critic.

* Michaelis ' daughter Caroline played an important role in early German Romanticism as the wife of critic August Wilhelm von Schlegel and later of philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.

Paul Charles Joseph Bourget ( 2 September 1852, Amiens – 25 December 1935, Paris ), was a French novelist and critic.

Charles Haughey, a critic of Lynch, proposed Donegal Teachta Dála ( TD ) Joseph Brennan, a former Minister for Social Welfare.

His mother, Mary Morgan, was descended from the poet and critic, Joseph Warton.

Jean-Baptiste Joseph Émile Montégut ( 14 June 1825-11 December 1895 ), was a French critic.

" Joseph Stiglitz has written that " the Washington Consensus policies were designed to respond to the very real problems in Latin America and made considerable sense " ( though Stiglitz has at times been an outspoken critic of IMF policies as applied to developing nations ).

Loos had become a devoted admirer of H. L. Mencken and when he was in New York, she would take a break from her " Tuesday Widows ", and join his circle which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, essayist Ernest Boyd, and theater critic George Jean Nathan.

Ralph Joseph Gleason ( March 1, 1917-June 3, 1975 ) was an influential American jazz and pop music critic.

The next day, 23 May 1990, a vocal critic of Bongo, Joseph Rendjambe, was found dead in a hotel, reportedly murdered by poison.

* March 9 – Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist ( b. 1864 )

* Lodewijk van Deijssel ( 1864 – 1952, critic, novelist ),

By 1864 he was proficient enough in the Czech language to be appointed as music critic to the main Czech language newspaper Národní listy.

Jan Bake ( September 1, 1787 – March 26, 1864 ) was a Dutch philologist and critic.

Notable Hamilton alumni include US Secretary of State Elihu Root ( 1864 ), US Vice President James S. Sherman ( 1878 ), poet Ezra Pound ( 1905 ), theatre critic Alexander Woollcott ( 1909 ), jurist and diplomat Philip Jessup ( 1919 ), psychologist B. F. Skinner ( 1926 ), Nobel Prize Winner Paul Greengard ( 1948 ), civil rights leader Bob Moses ( 1956 ), novelist Terry Brooks ( 1966 ), playwright Richard Nelson ( 1971 ), US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack ( 1972 ), composer Jay Reise ( 1972 ), Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Melinda Wagner ( 1979 ), novelist Peter Cameron ( 1982 ), actor Tony Goldwyn ( 1982 ), author Garret Kramer ( 1984 ), novelist Kamila Shamsie, actor and writer for The Office Paul Lieberstein ( 1989 ), actor Grayson McCouch ( 1991 ), Academy Award-winning screenwriter Nat Faxon ( 1997 ), and politician and author Matthew Zeller ( 2004 ).

Paul Elmer More ( December 12, 1864 – March 9, 1937 ) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologist.

Heinrich Wölfflin ( 21 June 1864, Winterthur – 19 July 1945, Zurich ) was a famous Swiss art critic, whose objective classifying principles (" painterly " vs. " linear " and the like ) were influential in the development of formal analysis in the history of art during the 20th century.

As a critic Ebrard occupied a very moderate standpoint ; as a writer his chief works were Christliche Dogmatik ( 2 vols, 1851 ), Vorlesungen über praktische Theologie ( 1864 ), and Apologetik ( 1874 – 1875, Eng.

Lodewijk van Deyssel was the pseudonym of Karel Joan Lodewijk Alberdingk Thijm ( September 22, 1864, Amsterdam-January 26, 1952 ), a Dutch novelist, prose-poet and literary critic and a leading member of the Tachtigers.

Bert ( h ) a Zuckerkandl-Szeps, born Bert ( h ) a Szeps ( April 13, 1864, Vienna-October 16, 1945, Paris ) was an Austrian writer, journalist, and critic.

** Heinrich Wölfflin ( 1864 – 1945 ), Swiss art critic

* Neil Postman, ( 1931 – 2003 ) author, media theorist and cultural critic,

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

* 1865 – Irving Babbitt, American critic and academic ( d. 1933 )

* 1921 – Hayden Carruth, American poet and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1882 – Marion Bauer, American composer, writer, and critic ( d. 1955 )

* 1902 – Jan Campert, Dutch journalist and critic ( d. 1943 )

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

* 1884 – Will Cuppy, American author and critic ( d. 1949 )

* 1840 – Émile Zola, French novelist and critic ( d. 1902 )

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

* 1922 – Richard Blackwell, American actor, journalist, fashion designer, and critic ( d. 2008 )

* 1918 – André Bazin, French critic and theorist ( d. 1958 )

* 1942 – Robert Christgau, American journalist and critic

* 2008 – Monica Lovinescu, Romanian essayist, critic, and journalist ( b. 1923 )

* 1805 – Ferenc Toldy, German-Hungarian critic ( d. 1875 )

* 1999 – Acharya Baldev Upadhyaya, Indian scholar, historian, and critic ( b. 1899 )

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

* 1884 – Béla Balázs, Hungarian critic, writer, and poet ( d. 1949 )

* 1965 – Fiona Kelleghan, American academic and critic

* Raymond Williams ( 1921 – 1988 ) academic, critic and writer was born and brought up locally.

* 1960 – Bruce Redman, Australian director, critic and radio personality

* 1967 – Film critic Roger Ebert published his very first film review in the Chicago Sun-Times.

* 1766 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic ( b. 1685 )

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

* Vincent Zarrilli – critic of the Big Dig who proposed the Boston Bypass