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Topic |
Wikipedia views |
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| 1 |
T. S. Eliot |
5,201 |
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| 2 |
Vladimir Nabokov |
3,121 |
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| 3 |
John Updike |
1,775 |
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| 4 |
Edward Said |
1,734 |
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| 5 |
Harlan Ellison |
1,583 |
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| 6 |
Judith Butler |
1,053 |
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| 7 |
Harold Bloom |
993 |
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| 8 |
Henry Louis Gates |
922 |
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| 9 |
Camille Paglia |
877 |
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| 10 |
Martin Gardner |
741 |
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| 11 |
Robert Penn Warren |
407 |
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| 12 |
Carroll Quigley |
398 |
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| 13 |
Bayard Taylor |
370 |
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| 14 |
Michiko Kakutani |
353 |
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| 15 |
John Gardner (novelist) |
319 |
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| 16 |
Stanley Fish |
317 |
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| 17 |
Kenneth Burke |
307 |
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| 18 |
Norman Cousins |
278 |
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| 19 |
Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
277 |
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| 20 |
Edmund Wilson |
264 |
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| 21 |
Jane Smiley |
259 |
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| 22 |
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
242 |
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| 23 |
Mark Van Doren |
230 |
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| 24 |
William Dean Howells |
229 |
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| 25 |
Lionel Trilling |
224 |
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| 26 |
Stephen Greenblatt |
222 |
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| 27 |
E. D. Hirsch, Jr. |
214 |
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| 28 |
Ivan van Sertima |
214 |
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| 29 |
George Steiner |
211 |
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| 30 |
S. T. Joshi |
206 |
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| 31 |
William H. Gass |
203 |
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| 32 |
John Gregory Dunne |
176 |
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| 33 |
Paul Fussell |
176 |
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| 34 |
Janet Maslin |
170 |
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| 35 |
Louis Untermeyer |
161 |
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| 36 |
Elaine Showalter |
158 |
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| 37 |
Walter J. Ong |
156 |
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| 38 |
M. H. Abrams |
154 |
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| 39 |
Anatole Broyard |
147 |
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| 40 |
Gordon Lish |
141 |
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| 41 |
Lev Manovich |
135 |
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| 42 |
Tim Page (music critic) |
135 |
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| 43 |
Isabel Paterson |
125 |
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| 44 |
John Crowe Ransom |
122 |
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| 45 |
Cleanth Brooks |
121 |
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| 46 |
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy |
117 |
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| 47 |
Charles Willeford |
112 |
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| 48 |
Hamid Dabashi |
108 |
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| 49 |
Newton Arvin |
102 |
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| 50 |
A. B. Guthrie, Jr. |
101 |
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| 51 |
Richard M. Weaver |
98 |
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| 52 |
Irving Howe |
93 |
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| 53 |
Jonathan Culler |
90 |
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| 54 |
William Deresiewicz |
89 |
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| 55 |
Leslie Fiedler |
86 |
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| 56 |
Walter Benn Michaels |
85 |
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| 57 |
Barbara Johnson |
85 |
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| 58 |
Dan Schneider (writer) |
82 |
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| 59 |
André Aciman |
80 |
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| 60 |
Clifton Fadiman |
79 |
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| 61 |
Helen Vendler |
78 |
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| 62 |
N. Katherine Hayles |
77 |
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| 63 |
Bruce Bawer |
74 |
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| 64 |
Sterling Allen Brown |
73 |
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| 65 |
Sandra Gilbert |
70 |
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| 66 |
John Hollander |
66 |
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| 67 |
Alfred Kazin |
61 |
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| 68 |
Mary Gordon (writer) |
61 |
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| 69 |
Jonathan Yardley |
58 |
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| 70 |
Elizabeth Hardwick (writer) |
57 |
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| 71 |
Perry Miller |
56 |
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| 72 |
Dale Peck |
55 |
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| 73 |
Margaret Caroline Anderson |
55 |
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| 74 |
Burton Rascoe |
55 |
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| 75 |
J. Hillis Miller |
54 |
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| 76 |
Francis Peabody Magoun |
53 |
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| 77 |
Michael Dirda |
53 |
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| 78 |
Will Cuppy |
51 |
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| 79 |
Jay David Bolter |
51 |
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| 80 |
Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
50 |
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| 81 |
F. O. Matthiessen |
50 |
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| 82 |
Hayden Carruth |
47 |
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| 83 |
Mike Gold |
47 |
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| 84 |
Geoffrey Hartman |
45 |
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| 85 |
Mark McGurl |
45 |
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| 86 |
John Leonard (critic) |
43 |
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| 87 |
Leo Marx |
42 |
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| 88 |
Yvor Winters |
41 |
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| 89 |
Paul Cantor |
41 |
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| 90 |
Sabine Hrechdakian |
40 |
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| 91 |
Paul Robeson, Jr. |
38 |
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| 92 |
Steven G. Kellman |
37 |
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| 93 |
Geoffrey O'Brien |
37 |
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| 94 |
Charles Mudede |
36 |
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| 95 |
John Miles Foley |
36 |
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| 96 |
Robert Peters |
35 |
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| 97 |
George Edward Woodberry |
34 |
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| 98 |
Carlin Romano |
34 |
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| 99 |
Wayne Koestenbaum |
33 |
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| 100 |
Alan Cheuse |
33 |
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| 101 |
Wolcott Gibbs |
32 |
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| 102 |
Terryl Givens |
32 |
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| 103 |
Susan Gubar |
31 |
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| 104 |
Harriet Monroe |
30 |
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| 105 |
Paul Elmer More |
30 |
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| 106 |
Barbara Herrnstein Smith |
30 |
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| 107 |
Adam Kirsch |
30 |
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| 108 |
Daryl F. Mallett |
29 |
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| 109 |
Adelaide Crapsey |
28 |
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| 110 |
Gilbert Highet |
28 |
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| 111 |
Annette Kolodny |
28 |
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| 112 |
Harry Levin |
28 |
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| 113 |
Svetlana Boym |
28 |
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| 114 |
Kristin Ross |
27 |
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| 115 |
Henry Nash Smith |
27 |
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| 116 |
Moses Hadas |
27 |
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| 117 |
Vicki Hearne |
27 |
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| 118 |
Noha Radwan |
27 |
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| 119 |
James Boyd White |
26 |
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| 120 |
William Veeder |
26 |
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| 121 |
Robert Lowry (writer) |
26 |
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| 122 |
Stephen Booth (academic) |
25 |
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| 123 |
Perry Lentz |
25 |
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| 124 |
Ron Charles |
25 |
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| 125 |
Peter Viereck |
24 |
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| 126 |
Bryan Reynolds |
24 |
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| 127 |
John Tytell |
24 |
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| 128 |
Stephen Burt |
24 |
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| 129 |
Virgil Nemoianu |
23 |
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| 130 |
Waldo Frank |
23 |
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| 131 |
Catherine Gallagher |
23 |
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| 132 |
Noah Wardrip-Fruin |
23 |
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| 133 |
John Kenneth Muir |
22 |
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| 134 |
James Longenbach |
22 |
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| 135 |
Roger Shattuck |
22 |
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| 136 |
Seymour Chatman |
22 |
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| 137 |
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt |
21 |
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| 138 |
Frank Lentricchia |
21 |
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| 139 |
R. W. B. Lewis |
21 |
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| 140 |
Walter Jackson Bate |
21 |
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| 141 |
Douglas Bush |
21 |
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| 142 |
George Lyman Kittredge |
21 |
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| 143 |
Stuart Goldman |
21 |
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| 144 |
Craig J Saper |
21 |
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| 145 |
Lawrence Buell |
21 |
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| 146 |
John Pelan |
21 |
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| 147 |
Eugene Jolas |
20 |
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| 148 |
Marco Roth |
20 |
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| 149 |
Henry Alley |
20 |
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| 150 |
Philip Wheelwright |
20 |
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| 151 |
Fiona Kelleghan |
20 |
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| 152 |
Maud Newton |
20 |
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| 153 |
Naomi Schor |
20 |
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| 154 |
R. Radhakrishnan |
20 |
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| 155 |
Edward Wagenknecht |
19 |
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| 156 |
Kathryn Lindskoog |
19 |
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| 157 |
Larry Bensky |
19 |
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| 158 |
Horace Gregory |
18 |
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| 159 |
Michael Moon (professor) |
18 |
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| 160 |
Philip Rahv |
18 |
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| 161 |
Eckhard Gerdes |
18 |
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| 162 |
Debora Shuger |
18 |
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| 163 |
Joel Porte |
18 |
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| 164 |
Kimon Friar |
18 |
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| 165 |
Zachary Leader |
18 |
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| 166 |
Richard Eder |
18 |
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| 167 |
Wai Chee Dimock |
18 |
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| 168 |
George Edgar Slusser |
17 |
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| 169 |
Walton Simons |
17 |
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| 170 |
David Bergman |
17 |
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| 171 |
Mark Sarvas |
17 |
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| 172 |
John Chamberlain (journalist) |
17 |
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| 173 |
David V. Erdman |
17 |
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| 174 |
D. W. Robertson, Jr. |
17 |
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| 175 |
Luis Leal (writer) |
17 |
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| 176 |
David Bromwich |
16 |
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| 177 |
Ian Jobling |
16 |
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| 178 |
David Galef |
16 |
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| 179 |
Rita Felski |
16 |
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| 180 |
Christopher Benfey |
15 |
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| 181 |
Marcia Nardi |
15 |
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| 182 |
Heinz Politzer |
15 |
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| 183 |
Naomi Lindstrom |
15 |
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| 184 |
H.R. Stoneback |
15 |
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| 185 |
John Livingston Lowes |
14 |
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| 186 |
R. V. Young |
14 |
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| 187 |
Murray Krieger |
14 |
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| 188 |
Stuart Moulthrop |
14 |
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| 189 |
George Scialabba |
14 |
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| 190 |
Janice Radway |
14 |
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| 191 |
Avrahm Yarmolinsky |
14 |
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| 192 |
Marilyn Stasio |
14 |
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| 193 |
Harry Warner, Jr. |
13 |
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| 194 |
Richard Grant White |
13 |
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| 195 |
Philip F. Gura |
13 |
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| 196 |
Robert Warshow |
13 |
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| 197 |
Vance Thompson |
13 |
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| 198 |
William Allen Neilson |
12 |
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| 199 |
Samuel Rosenberg |
12 |
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| 200 |
Charles William Wallace |
12 |
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| 201 |
Kevin Kopelson |
12 |
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| 202 |
Henry Littlefield |
12 |
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| 203 |
William Cleaver Wilkinson |
12 |
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| 204 |
Livia Bloom |
12 |
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| 205 |
Bonnie Lyons |
12 |
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| 206 |
Stark Young |
11 |
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| 207 |
Hiram Corson |
11 |
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| 208 |
William Heyen |
11 |
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| 209 |
Moses Coit Tyler |
11 |
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| 210 |
John F. Callahan |
11 |
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| 211 |
Annie Carroll Moore |
11 |
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| 212 |
Douglas Crase |
11 |
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| 213 |
Gary Saul Morson |
11 |
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| 214 |
Clifton Snider |
11 |
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| 215 |
Ted Solotaroff |
11 |
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| 216 |
Donald Greene |
11 |
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| 217 |
Diana Pavlac Glyer |
11 |
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| 218 |
Glenn Lord |
11 |
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| 219 |
Lewis MacAdams |
11 |
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| 220 |
Edwin Percy Whipple |
10 |
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| 221 |
A. Walton Litz |
10 |
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| 222 |
J. Yellowlees Douglas |
10 |
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| 223 |
Angie Chabram-Dernersesian |
10 |
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| 224 |
David Greenberger |
10 |
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| 225 |
Norman Holmes Pearson |
10 |
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| 226 |
Harold Augenbraum |
10 |
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| 227 |
Jeffrey Schnapp |
10 |
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| 228 |
Gerald Eades Bentley |
10 |
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| 229 |
Jonathan M. Weiss |
10 |
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| 230 |
Gene H. Bell-Villada |
10 |
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| 231 |
Peter Penzoldt |
10 |
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| 232 |
Bram Dijkstra |
9 |
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| 233 |
Makoto Ueda (poetry critic) |
9 |
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| 234 |
Harold Clarke Goddard |
9 |
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| 235 |
Robert Bertholf |
9 |
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| 236 |
Peter Travis |
9 |
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| 237 |
May Lamberton Becker |
9 |
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| 238 |
Jim A. Kuypers |
9 |
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| 239 |
Susan M. Schultz |
9 |
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| 240 |
Robert Bernard Hass |
9 |
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| 241 |
Jeffrey Mehlman |
9 |
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| 242 |
Philip Heldrich |
9 |
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| 243 |
David J. McDonald, Jr. |
9 |
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| 244 |
Geoff Wisner |
9 |
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| 245 |
Gerald Jay Goldberg |
9 |
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| 246 |
George Brown (scholar) |
9 |
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| 247 |
Maxim D. Shrayer |
9 |
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| 248 |
F. W. Dupee |
9 |
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| 249 |
Norman Finkelstein (poet) |
9 |
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| 250 |
Louise Chandler Moulton |
8 |
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| 251 |
Robert Polito |
8 |
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| 252 |
Gorham Munson |
8 |
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| 253 |
Thomas Marc Parrott |
8 |
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| 254 |
James R. Kincaid |
8 |
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| 255 |
Richard Yarborough |
8 |
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| 256 |
Roger Sale |
7 |
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| 257 |
John G. Cawelti |
7 |
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| 258 |
Frederick J. Pohl |
7 |
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| 259 |
Michael Skube |
7 |
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| 260 |
Cheryl Wall |
7 |
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| 261 |
Gary Krist (writer) |
7 |
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| 262 |
Bernard Benstock |
7 |
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| 263 |
Peter Swirski |
7 |
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| 264 |
Robert Cantwell |
6 |
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| 265 |
Gary William Crawford |
6 |
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| 266 |
William Malone Baskervill |
6 |
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| 267 |
Richard Gilman |
6 |
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| 268 |
Steven Zwicker |
6 |
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| 269 |
Marleen Barr |
6 |
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| 270 |
Peter S. Prescott |
6 |
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| 271 |
M. C. Gardner |
6 |
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| 272 |
Julian C. Boyd |
6 |
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| 273 |
William McPherson (critic) |
6 |
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| 274 |
Charles Newman (author) |
6 |
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| 275 |
Lev Losev |
6 |
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| 276 |
Stephen Orgel |
less than 5 views |
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| 277 |
Nathan A. Scott, Jr. |
less than 5 views |
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| 278 |
William Crary Brownell |
less than 5 views |
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| 279 |
Donald Weber |
less than 5 views |
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| 280 |
Erwin Kempton Mapes |
less than 5 views |
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| 281 |
Pamela L. Caughie |
less than 5 views |
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| 282 |
Stuart Sherman |
less than 5 views |
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| 283 |
Aldon Lynn Nielsen |
less than 5 views |
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| 284 |
Manuel Luis Martínez |
less than 5 views |
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| 285 |
Ben Howard (poet) |
less than 5 views |
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| 286 |
Benjamin T. Spencer |
less than 5 views |
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| 287 |
Horatio Sheafe Krans |
less than 5 views |
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| 288 |
Donald Gutierrez |
less than 5 views |
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| 289 |
Montrose Jonas Moses |
less than 5 views |
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| 290 |
Percival Pollard |
less than 5 views |
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| 291 |
Wesley D. Sweetser |
less than 5 views |
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| 292 |
Robert E. Fleming |
less than 5 views |
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| 293 |
James W. Tuttleton |
less than 5 views |
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| 294 |
Christopher Looby |
less than 5 views |
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| 295 |
Mel Watkins (author) |
less than 5 views |
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| 296 |
Robert Appelbaum |
less than 5 views |
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| 297 |
Laurence D'Orsay |
less than 5 views |
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| 298 |
Irving Malin |
less than 5 views |
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| 299 |
A. Langley Searles |
less than 5 views |
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| 300 |
Jay Clayton (critic) |
less than 5 views |
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| 301 |
Eric Sundquist |
less than 5 views |
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