Category
page 1British literary theorists
George Orwell
British writer and journalist (1903–1950)
Virginia Woolf
English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Harold Pinter
British playwright (1930–2008)
W. H. Auden
British-American poet (1907–1973)
Matthew Arnold
British poet and cultural critic (1822–1888)

Martin Amis
British novelist

Kingsley Amis
English novelist, poet, critic and teacher (1922-1995)
Anthony Trollope
English novelist of the Victorian period (1815-1882)
George Meredith
British novelist and poet (1828–1909)

J. G. Ballard
British novelist (1930–2009)

Terry Eagleton
British writer, academic and educator

Mark Fisher
British cultural theorist (1968-2017)
Walter Besant
English novelist and historian (1836–1901)
William Empson
English literary critic and poet (1906–1984)
George Saintsbury
British critic and literary historian (1845–1933)
Allardyce Nicoll
British literary scholar and teacher (1894-1976)
Cambridge Ritualists
recognised group of classical scholars, mostly in Cambridge, England