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Born October 16, 1906 • Kentucky
Died May 10, 1994 (aged 87) • New Haven • Connecticut
Movement / Style New Criticism
Subjects Of Study dramatic literature • novel • poetry
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Vladimir Nabokov
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Ana Castillo
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
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T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
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Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
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François Mauriac
François Mauriac
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Sir Stephen Spender
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Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
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Massimo Bontempelli
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Catulle Mendès.
Catulle Mendès
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Meena Alexander
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Robert Williams Buchanan
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Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
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Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
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