| BOILEAU | French poet and critic, author of "L'Art Poetique" |
| CAMUS | Author of "L'Etranger" |
| RIVIERE | Jacques ?, French writer and critic; author of 1912 collection Etudes |
| HAZLITT | William ?, English essayist and critic; author of 1825 collection The Spirit of the Age |
| LYTTON | ___ Strachey, English writer and critic, author of Eminent Victorians (6) |
| BAUDELAIRE | French poet and critic, d. 1867 - audible ear (anag) (10) |
| VALERY | Paul ?, French poet and critic whose works include 1917's La Jeune Parque |
| PAULVALERY | French poet and critic whose works include 1917's La Jeune Parque |
| MALLARME | Stephane, French poet and critic born in 1842 (8) |
| ANDREBRETON | French poet and art critic who was the founder and chief theorist of surrealism (5,6) |
| CLIVEJAMES | Australian critic, author and broadcaster whose first volume of autobiography is entitled Unreliable |
| ANATOLEFRANCE | French poet and novelist of Les dieux ont soif and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature a decade after mAETERLINCK (7,6) |
| ETAT | 'L'___ de l'art' ('moderne') |
| RACINE | Jean ___, 17th-century French poet and dramatist whose plays include Andromaque and Phedre |
| COCTEAU | Jean , French poet and playwright influential in early 20th century art (7) |
| ETRE | Victor Hugo's "L'Art d'___ grand-pere" |
| AGEE | U.S. film critic-author |
| FROISSART | Fourteenth-century French poet and court historian whose Chronicles are an important record of feudal Europe (9) |
| APOLLINAIRE | Guillaume ___, French poet and playwright who coined the term surrealist (11) |
| DEMUSSET | Alfred ___, 19th-century French poet and dramatist whose plays include Lorenzaccio (2,6) |
