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Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“The period of general neglect of Eliot's poetry was one in which a revolution was occurring in the theory of interpretation. Existentialist, phenomenologist, structuralist,…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“But for some readers, especially Derrida’s closest friends, the allusions to reality at the centre of the ‘Envois’ seemed barely tolerable. Pierre remembers how…

— Benoît Peeters

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis

“My reviews of the above books appear in my series, A Literary Cavalcade. Reviews are listed alphabetically by author across the six volumes.”

— Robert A. Parker

“In the final analysis, it is not critics who create literary canons, it is other writers who create them .... A writer can have…

— Helen Vendler

“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But what are…

— Amy Tan

A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

— Edward Abbey

“After listing the vast array of famous composers, artists, and authors who had created works based on Dante’s epic poem, Langdon scanned the crowd.…

— Dan Brown

“and yet the original Writers at Work volumes, especially the first three, possessed a magic all their own. As a teenager, I virtually memorized…

— Michael Dirda

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library…

— Théophile Gautier