Your most /lit/ lit. critics? Also >Who is missing from this

>>9605434
Put Boccaccio in the white famalamadingdong.

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>>9605434
EMPSON
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>>9605434
Frye

>>9605434
Criticism is just what you do when you can neither write fiction or philosophy

>implying lesbianism isn't the most /lit/ sexuality

The Schlegels, Sainte-Beuve, George Steiner, Erich Auerbach, Harold Goddard, Helen Vendler, etc.

>>9605463
>people think this
>people enjoy woody allen movies
go back

>>9605586
Found the critic

>>9605434
The answer is
>Samuel Taylor Coleridge
by the way

>>9605455
He's already in there desu

>>9605579
You made me wet with accuracy.

>>9605620
I also supplied the STC, doll--
which BETTER be correct....

Johnson, Bloom, Wilson, Hazlitt.
Arnold and Eliot are awful imo, especially eliot

>>9605870
Unfair to Johnson, but the rest are moot. On the other hand consider the parameters: /lit/.

>>9605870
Wait. Perhaps I misread /you/...

>>9605434
>Judith Butler
Why did Butler write Gender Trouble in such an obscuring fashion? Literally, her writing style hinders her ability to communicate her ideas clearly, which actually hold a lot of merit.

>>9605941
Sokol Affair my duded B)

>>9605870
>shits on Arnold
>praises Bloom
neck yourself

>>9605579
Yeah most of these are classics

>>9605870
You're just repeating what Bloom say

>>9605941
All of her ideas are either trivial or stupid

>>9605434
who da missing critic? Auden? Coleridge? Cool Bill Empson? My mang Isaac Disraeli?
>The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ID
The Amenities of Literature, The Curiosities of Literature: totes the shit.

Virginia Woolfe

>>9606752
Because he too dislikes Eliot's criticism? Eliot just has shit taste, some of his favorites are utter nonentities

>>9606446
At least bloom has had some original thoughts. Arnold's criticism never goes below the surface

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>>9605463