What is "literary critic"

Usage examples of "literary critic".

This is a question for the historian, not for the literary critic.

He summed up: The only just literary critic is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

Desmond Hawkins (1908- ), novelist, literary critic and broadcaster, who did much free-lance work with the Indian Service of the B.

To put it no higher, people like ourselves have been enabled to put in a couple of decades of stimulating reading in a field where the writ of the more portentous type of literary critic does not run.

KV: It would be fun for a literary critic to get an author and question him.

Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright, literary critic and essayist, was born in 1913 in Thamesville, Ontario.

This was Tolkien talking not primarily as a philologist or even a literary critic, but as a storyteller.

But Bret Harte, who also did a great deal to establish the formula used in Westerns to this day, was a master of generic conventions and a skilled editor and literary critic.

Maybe I'm missing something, since I'm just a dull-witted reader instead of a literary critic, but I thought the house of stone was a figure of speech.

Wildeblood, the literary critic, said to Crane the very day that appeared.

One_ instead of _Nombre une_ may or may not've influenced Samuel Beckett to write in French instead of English, as the literary critic Leon Mindlin has claimed.

He no longer looks at life with the selective eye of the novelist: he looks at his own past with the fastidious frown of the literary critic, grading, evaluating, trying to separate the serious from the unserious.

The blond lady talking to him is Petra Neustadt, the most influential literary critic in Central Europe.

The `impression' of a literary critic is the very least argument that ought to be brought forward.

My own line was to say that I was a professional literary critic and I thought I did know the difference between legend and historical writing: that the Gospels were certainly not legends (in one sense they're not good enough): and that if they are not history, then they are realistic prose fiction of a kind which actually never existed before the eighteenth century.