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

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

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

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

William Hazlitt, Romantic critic

The first of the negative reviews was written by William Hazlitt, literary critic and Romantic writer.

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

During his early period, Heinlein's writing for younger readers needed to take account of both editorial perceptions of sexuality in his novels, and potential perceptions among the buying public ; as critic William H. Patterson has put it, his dilemma was " to sort out what was really objectionable from what was only excessive over-sensitivity to imaginary librarians ".

* 1830 – William Hazlitt, English philosopher, writer, and critic ( b. 1778 )

In The World, William Archer wrote that he had enjoyed watching the play but found it to be empty of meaning, " What can a poor critic do with a play which raises no principle, whether of art or morals, creates its own canons and conventions, and is nothing but an absolutely wilful expression of an irrepressibly witty personality?

* July 11 – William Ernest Henley, English poet, critic, and editor ( b. 1849 )

* April 19 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( b. 1856 )

* April 7 – William Lisle Bowles, English poet and critic ( b. 1762 )

* April 12 – William Martin Conway, British art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )

* June 7 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester ( b. 1698 )

" He was preparing a bull that would excommunicate the King of France and put the interdict over France, and to depose the entire clergy of France, when in September 1303, William Nogaret, the strongest critic of the Papacy in the French inner circle, led a delegation to Rome, with intentionally loose orders by the king to bring the pope, if necessary by force, before a council to rule on the charges brought against him.

* December 24 – William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester ( d. 1779 )

Among the themes that would run through all of his work were " personal alienation and an outrage over social injustice ", writes film critic William Baer.

William Melvin " Bill " Hicks ( December 16, 1961 – February 26, 1994 ) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.

Present at this meeting were General Charles Loring, Chairman of the Trustees of the MFA ; William Sturgis Bigelow and Denman Ross, collectors, writers and MFA trustees ; Ross Turner, painter ; Sylvester Baxter, art critic for the Boston Transcript ; Howard Baker, A. W.

There have been a number of notable Old Rugbeians including the purported father of the sport of Rugby William Webb Ellis, the inventor of Australian rules football Tom Wills, the war poets Rupert Brooke and John Gillespie Magee, Jr., Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, author and mathematician Lewis Carroll, poet and cultural critic Matthew Arnold, the author and social critic Salman Rushdie ( who said of his time there: " Almost the only thing I am proud of about going to Rugby school was that Lewis Carroll went there too.

The poet / critic Randall Jarrell said of his poetry, " William Carlos Williams is as magically observant and mimetic as a good novelist.

In a review of William Carlos Williams ' biography, " Something Urgent I Have to Say to You ": The Life and Works of William Carlos Williams, by Herbert Leibowitz, book critic Christopher Benfey wrote of Williams's poetry, " Early and late, Williams held the conviction that poetry was in his friend Kenneth Burke's phrase, ' equipment for living, a necessary guide amid the bewilderments of life.

Mann did some of his most celebrated work with cinematographer John Alton, a specialist in what critic James Naremore describes as " hypnotic moments of light-in-darkness ".

He worked as a critic and journalist in Vienna and Prague until 1938, when his Jewish heritage compelled him to emigrate to France and, later, after being invited by the New York PEN-Club as one of " Ten outstanding German Anti-Nazi-Writers " ( along with Heinrich Mann, Franz Werfel, Alfred Döblin, Leonhard Frank, Alfred Polgar, and others ) to the United States, where he worked as a scriptwriter in Hollywood and then for Time magazine in New York.

A critic of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, John Mann was the first Labour MP to call for Gordon Brown to resign after the 2010 General Election.

* TCM Remembers 2007: Solveig Dommartin, Ulrich Mühe, producer Carlo Ponti, Charles Lane, Miyoshi Umeki, Mala Powers, writer Peter Viertel, writer Norman Mailer, Barbara McNair, producer Sidney Sheldon, Ron Carey, cinematographer László Kovács, director Delbert Mann, writer A. I. Bezzerides, Bud Ekins, Deborah Kerr, Calvin Lockhart, Betty Hutton, Marcel Marceau, film critic Joel Siegel, Yvonne De Carlo, Bobby Mauch, Lois Maxwell, Barry Nelson, make-up artist William J. Tuttle, Alice Ghostley, Jack Williams, Gordon Scott, Laraine Day, Roscoe Lee Browne, Michel Serrault, writer Bernard Gordon, Richard Jeni, Kitty Carlisle Hart, director Bob Clark, director Richard Franklin, cinematographer Freddie Francis, Kerwin Mathews, Frankie Laine, Robert Goulet, Jack Valenti, director Michelangelo Antonioni, Jane Wyman and director Ingmar Bergman.

According to the testimony of the literary critic Josip Vidmar, Cankar's novel Hiša Marije Pomočnice was well received by the famous German writer Thomas Mann, who helped to publish a German edition in 1930.

Thomas Mann wrote of Merezhkovsky as of a " genius critic and specialist in world psychology, second only to Nietzche ".

* William Mann ( critic ) ( 1924 – 1989 ), British music critic for The Times

Congress had already appropriated money, and plans were well along to tear down the buildings flanking Lafayette Square and replace them with what one critic calls the `` marble monumentality '' of government office buildings.

In her next-to-last movie, Hellcats of the Navy ( 1957 ), she played nurse Lieutenant Helen Blair and shared the screen for the only time with her husband, playing what one critic called " a housewife who came along for the ride ".

He became such a troublesome critic of the government that Walpole moved to punish him by arranging his dismissal from the army in 1736, along with several of his friends and political allies.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

These men, along with academics like novelist and accomplished critic, Dr. Josephine Gattuso Hendin of New York University, have taught Italian American studies at such institutions as the City University of New York, John D. Calandra Institute, Queens College ( CUNY ), and Stony Brook University, as well as Brooklyn College, where Dr. Robert Viscusi founded the Italian American Writers Association, and is an author and American Book Award winner, himself.

" Indeed, along with middling sales-figures, one critic noted that " side from vague notions of foreign cities and pop culture, it was never entirely clear what they were supposed to have in common in the first place.

In Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, the literary critic Erich Auerbach considers the Hebrew narrative of the Binding of Isaac, along with Homer's description of Odysseus's scar, as the two paradigmatic models for the representation of reality in literature.

The Sea of Light album ( 1995 ) produced by the band along with Kalle Trapp was well received and in retrospect is seen as the band's return to form, the key to success being ( according to critic Donald A. Guarisco ) the way it " forsook the ill-judged pop metal stylings of albums like Equator for a return to the gothic-tinged old-school metal style that highlighted classic Uriah Heep albums like Look at Yourself ".

Nigel Edward Buxton ( born 1924 ) is a British travel writer and wine critic, also known for appearing as BaaadDad in the Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show, which was written and presented by his son Adam Buxton along with Adam's friend Joe Cornish.

The article mentioned Alan Lomax as one of the sponsors of the dinner, along with C. B. Baldwin, campaign manager for Henry A. Wallace ; New York Times music critic Olin Downes ; and W. E. B.

Since then, Morrison has experimented with lyric fantasy, as in her two best-known later works, Song of Solomon ( 1977 ) and Beloved ( 1987 ), for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ; along these lines, critic Harold Bloom has drawn favorable comparisons to Virginia Woolf, and the Nobel committee to " Faulkner and to the Latin American tradition magical realism.

Contemporary poet and critic Alexei Purin thinks the openly " tragic ," socially oriented tradition of Russian literature has been exhausted and it needed to reorient itself along the more personal and artistic tradition exemplified by Kuzmin and Vladimir Nabokov.

Bloomsday ( a term Joyce himself did not employ ) was invented in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the events in the novel, when John Ryan ( artist, critic, publican and founder of Envoy magazine ) and the novelist Brian O ' Nolan organised what was to be a daylong pilgrimage along the Ulysses route.

On June 4, 1959, shortly after the Nagpur session of the Indian National Congress, Rajaji, along with Murari Vaidya of the newly established Forum of Free Enterprise ( FFE ) and Minoo Masani, a classical liberal and critic of socialist Nehru, announced the formation of the new Swatantra Party at a meeting in Madras.

Within the field of artificial intelligence, the Loebner Prize is somewhat controversial ; the most prominent critic, Marvin Minsky, has called it a publicity stunt that does not help the field along.

Film critic Richard Schickel wrote that, though the film " bumps along very pleasantly for the most part ", Edwards failed at his attempt to recreate the slapstick atmosphere of a Laurel and Hardy comedy.

" And there I was, on closing night, singing and sobbing along ," later wrote Time magazine critic Richard Corliss.

The term was coined by writer, curator and Los Angeles Times art critic Jules Langsner, along with Peter Selz, in 1959, to describe the work of painters from California, who, in their reaction to the more painterly or gestural forms of Abstract expressionism, adopted a knowingly impersonal paint application and delineated areas of color with particular sharpness and clarity.

The music critic and sexologist Ernest Borneman stated that Bogan, along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, was in " the big three of the blues ".

Featuring lyrics about death, suicide and child abuse, along with children's songs and a Middle Eastern techno number, music critic Greg Prato described the album as having " a totally original and new musical style that sounds like nothing that currently exists ".

Jazz critic Hugues Panassié considered him one of the three greatest jazz drummers of his generation, along with Zutty Singleton and Warren " Baby " Dodds.

It was largely on the strength of this work that critic Alan Velie named Silko one of his Four Native American Literary Masters, along with N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor and James Welch.

Tun Hussein along with the Tunku, henceforth, became a strident critic of the Mahathir administration and died without having rejoined UMNO.

The one critic who was not so keen on the book was Christie's publisher, John Lane, who had wanted her to write another detective novel along the lines of The Mysterious Affair at Styles.