Literary theorists

French novelist, poet, dramatist and politician (1802–1885)

Irish novelist and poet (1882–1941)

Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

US-British poet (1888–1965)

English poet and civil servant (1608–1674)

Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

Swedish writer and painter (1849–1912)

Polish science fiction author, philosopher and futurologist, studied medical doctor (1921–2006)

English poet and cleric (1572-1631)

French philosopher (1930–2004)

Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar (1911–1980)

French philosopher (1925–1995)

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (; – ) was a Roman educator and rhetorician born in Hispania, widely referred to in medieval schools of rhetoric and in Renaissance writing. In English translation, he is usually referred to as Quintilian ( ), although the alternate spellings of Quintillian and Quinctilian are occasionally seen, the latter in older texts.

Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic (1885–1971)

Russian intellectual and philosopher

German historian, psychologist, sociologist, student of hermeneutics, and philosopher (1833–1911)

Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic

Indian writer

Canadian literary critic and literary theorist (1912–1991)

Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic (1912-1995)

Russian philologist (1838-1906)

Soviet academic (1894-1969)

Russian philologist and translator (1935–2005)

Ukrainian translator (1919–1988)

Dutch politician (1906-1997)

historian

Israeli left wing activist, literary theorist and editor

Book collector/writer/bibliographer (1834-1900)

Czech theatre and literary theorist and writer (1867–1937)

Indian poet and critic (1930-2006)

Romanian writer (1895–1964)

literary theorist, political commentator

Philosopher, literary theorist and scholar

Serbian feminist, translator, literary critic, literature theoretician, professor (1891-1967)

Aberjhani (born Jeffery J. Lloyd July 8, 1957) is an American poet, writer and columnist. He is well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, and as co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and author of The River of Winged Dreams. The encyclopedia won a Choice Academic Title Award in 2004.

Slovak literary theorist (1929-1997)

Romanian Symbolist poet, prose writer, playwright, journalist and socialist activist (1877–1904)

Italian philosopher and logician (1868-1956)

Russian writer and literary critic (1867-1941)

Austrian specialist in literature, murdered in Holocaust (1861-1942)

Romanian social scientist

Polish historian

Swiss philologist and specialist in literature (1909-1991)

Moldovan writer (1901–1937)

Czech politician, academic, literary theorist and publicist (1902-1981)