It was thus a promising idea of Andrew Motion, an English critic and poet, to undertake a family biography.
Dinah Birch (born 4th October 1953) is an English literary critic.
John Russell Taylor (born 19 June 1935) is an English critic and author.
It's easy to see why the play left the kindest English critics cold; the meanest called it "a dodo."
But not all English critics were entranced: "Overpraised, overstaged and over here," wrote one.
The work is based on the best-known play that Ashley Dukes, an English critic and theater manager (1885-1959), wrote.
Many English critics viewed it as a warning lesson against absinthe and the French in general.
But then I unexpectedly came across a brief summary of it in a book by an English critic.
At age of eight young William was appearing in concerts and some English critics were hailing him as a musical prodigy.
"I think English critics in general - the English are used to drinking older wines," he said.