Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, literary critic and editor. Considered one of the 20th century's major poets, he is a central figure in English-language Modernist poetry.
Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930.
Frederick Louis MacNeice was an Irish poet and playwright, and a member of the Auden Group, which also included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender and Cecil Day-Lewis. MacNeice's body of work was widely appreciated by the public during his lifetime, due in part to his relaxed but socially and emotionally aware style. Never as overtly or simplistically political as some of his contemporaries, he expressed a humane opposition to totalitarianism as well as an acute awareness of his roots.
Sir John Frank Kermode, FBA was a British literary critic best known for his 1967 work The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction and for his extensive book-reviewing and editing.
Mark Ford is a British poet. He currently serves as the Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at University College London.
Balachandra Rajan was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics.
Declan Kiberd is an Irish writer and scholar with an interest in modern Irish literature, both in the English and Irish languages, which he often approaches through the lens of postcolonial theory. He is also interested in the academic study of children's literature. He serves on the advisory board of the International Review of Irish Culture and is a professor at the University of Notre Dame and at its campus in Dublin. In recent years and with publications such as After Ireland (2018), Kiberd has become a commentator on contemporary Irish social and political issues, particularly as such issues have been examined by Ireland's writers.
Bernard O'Donoghue FRSL is a contemporary Irish poet and academic.
John Davy Hayward CBE was an English editor, critic, anthologist and bibliophile.
Jennifer Sheila Uglow is an English biographer, historian, critic and publisher. She was an editorial director of Chatto & Windus. She has written critically acclaimed biographies of Elizabeth Gaskell, William Hogarth, Thomas Bewick, and Edward Lear, and a history and joint biography of the Lunar Society, among others, and has also compiled The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography.
Stephen Romer, FRSL is an English poet, academic and literary critic.
Clive Wilmer is a British poet, who has published eight volumes of poetry. He is also a critic, literary journalist, broadcaster and lecturer.
William St Clair, was a British historian, senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, and author.
The biographer, cultural historian and critic Jeremy Treglown is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick. He was editor of The Times Literary Supplement through the 1980s and Chair of the Arvon Foundation, 2017-22.
Janet Buchanan Adam Smith OBE was a writer, editor, literary journalist and champion of Scottish literature. She was active from the 1930s through to the end of the century and noted for her elegant prose, her penetrating judgement, her independence of mind – and her deep love of mountains and mountaineering.
The T. S. Eliot bibliography contains a list of works by T. S. Eliot.
Jane Ridley is an English historian, biographer, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham.
Pamela Clemit, FRHistS is a British scholar, critic, and writer. She specializes in British literature and culture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her work intersects with the fields of history, philosophy, and politics, and she has particular expertise in the Godwin-Shelley family of writers.
Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Seamus Perry DPhil is an author, academic, a Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford and, since 2014, a Professor of English Literature in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford.
