Statues for Critics

Meet the Critics

“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”

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P.G. Wodehouse

Aristotle  The first drama critic Best-known criticism:  The Poetics “Pay no attention to what the critics say. No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.” ****

Jean Sibelius

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Enlightenment Critic
Wrote:
On Gothic Architecture  Theory of Colors  Shakespeare: a Tribute

 "No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”



George Eliot
Novelist and Critic
Translated:
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
Wrote:
Silly Novels by Lady Novelists  The Influence of Rationalism

“No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”

  

John Ruskin 
Victorian Art Critic
Wrote:

Modern Painters    The Stones of Venice   The Elements of Drawing

“No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”

George Bernard Shaw
Drama and Music Critic
Wrote: 

The Perfect Wagnerite   Our Theaters in the Nineties   London Music

“No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”

Virginia Woolf
Feminist Literary Critic
Wrote:
A Room of One's Own

 "No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”


 

Osip Mandelstam
 Poetry Critic
Wrote:
On the Nature of the Word  On the Addressee  Talking about Dante

 "No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic."



Marina Tsvetaeva
Literary Critic
Wrote:
Boris Pasternak and Vladimir Mayakovsky  Art in the Light of Conscience

 "No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic."




T.S. Eliot
Literary Critic
Wrote: 

Tradition and the Individual Talent

“No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”

Jean Paul Sartre
Literature and Philosophy Critic
Editor of Journal 

Les Temps Modernes
Wrote:   
What is Literature?  The Idiot of the Family

“No statue has ever been dedicated to a critic.”