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

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.

" The literary critic D. F. Rauber claimed that the man was " necessary to create the illusion of the cut short rather than the stopped ".

One critic wrote the image of John F. Kennedy was described as carefully framed " in rich detail " which " drew on the power of myth " regarding the incident of PT 109 and wrote that Kennedy understood how to use images to further his presidential ambitions.

* July 14 – F. R. Leavis, British literary critic ( d. 1978 )

* April 14 – F. R. Leavis, British literary critic ( b. 1895 )

He is a staunch critic of the Warren Commission and offered $ 1 million for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the assassin of John F. Kennedy.

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Writing in A. R. Orage's magazine The New Age, the poet and critic F. S. Flint ( a champion of free verse and modern French poetry ) was highly critical of the club and its publications.

The university gave Heine access to notable cultural figures as lecturers: the Sanskritist Franz Bopp and the Homer critic F. A.

In opposition, one critic, Karl F. Zender, argued that Dreiser ’ s stress on circumstance over character was “ adequate neither to the artistic power nor to the culture implications of Sister Carrie ”.

Gods of the New Millennium author Alan F. Alford admits he initially became " infatuated " with Sitchin's hypotheses but later became a critic of Sitchin's interpretations of myth.

Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

Novelist / critic H. R. F.

; F. Brunetière, " L ' Esthétique de Boileau " ( Revue des Deux Mondes, June 1889 ), and an exhaustive article by the same critic in La Grande Encyclopédie ; Gustave Lanson, Boileau ( 1892 ), in the series of Grands écrivains français.

According to film critic Leonard Maltin, professional failure following an early success is referred to in Hollywood circles as the " F. Murray Abraham syndrome ".

* April 14 – F. R. Leavis, literary critic

'" In 1916, critic Herbert F. Peyser declared that " the world has indeed moved between the epoch of Beethoven and of Leo Ornstein.

Its most notable English translation was done by food writer and critic M. F. K. Fisher, who remarked " I hold myself blessed among translators.

The poet and critic F. S. Flint, who was a champion of free verse and modern French poetry, was highly critical of the club and its publications.

One critic thought I. F.

In 1950 critic and musicologist Irving Kolodin said about the Ballade in F minor of Chopin played by Moiseiwitsch: " A featherweight touch in the opening section of this work, an apt feeling for its " once upon a time " narrative quality give Moiseiwitsch pre-eminence among present day interpreters ...", thus summing up the sensitivity of the playing by Benno Moiseiwitsch.

The literary critic F. R. Leavis was critical of this work, calling Snow a " public relations man " for the scientific establishment in an essay published in The Spectator, which was widely decried in the British press.

In 1949, Sweezy and Leo Huberman founded a new magazine called Monthly Review, using money from historian and literary critic F. O. Matthiessen.

Frank Raymond " F. R ." Leavis CH ( 14 July 1895 – 14 April 1978 ) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid-twentieth century.

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 ).

After Johns spoke on South Africa at the United Nations in New York City on November 27, 1990, during which he criticized the world body openly for continuing economic sanctions in ways that he said were hurting South Africa's black majority under the auspices of helping them, William F. Buckley, Jr. wrote in his December 27, 1990 Universal Press Syndicate column that Johns ' appearance at the U. N. was influential and " did not meet with critical reception because Johns has for many years been a voluble critic of apartheid, so that it was not thought necessary to pass much time on the disavowalist rituals.