He remains active as poet, critic, and fiction-writer, and the task of defining his achievement is still to be done.

Stefan Jurkowski, poet, publicist, literary critic, journalist.

December 13 - Samuel Johnson, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer (born 1709)

Arvind Krishna Mehrotra (born 1947) is a noted Indian poet, anthologist, literary critic and translator.

Stephen Romer is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

He has lived there ever since, traveling the world as a poet, writer, translator, cultural critic, invited lecturer, scholar-in-residence and visiting professor.

Grevel Lindop (born 1948) is an English poet, academic and literary critic.

To bring together all those who admire Larkin's work as poet, novelist, jazz critic and librarian.

Grahame Davies (born 1964) is a poet, author, editor, literary critic and journalist.

André Salmon was another poet, art critic and writer associated with Picasso.