| STEINER | George *****. literary critic and essayist born in 1929 (7) |
| WALT | ____ Whitman, U.S. poet and essayist born in 1819 (4) |
| BRETON | Andre, French poet and essayist born in 1896 who promoted the Surrealist movement (6) |
| STEELE | Sir Richard, essayist born in Ireland in 1672 (6) |
| HAZLITT | William, early 19th-century English writer, an esteemed critic and essayist (7) |
| ALVAREZ | Al ******* , English poet, essayist and critic born in 1929 (7) |
| ASBYATT | Literary critic and Booker Prize-winning author of Possession (1,1,5) |
| HAITINK | Bernard, Amsterdam-born conductor born in 1929 (7) |
| BEDFORD | English town where comedian Ronnie Barker was born in 1929 (7) |
| GAUTIER | Theophile, French poet, dramatist and literary critic born in 1811 (7) |
| DERRIDA | Jacques ---, Algerian-born French philosopher and literary critic (7) |
| EMERSON | American poet and essayist's first sermon in new compilation (7) |
| EMPSON | William, literary critic and poet, born in 1906 (6) |
| CHARLES | Prince hit hard by bishop and essayist taking part in immature liaisons (7,4) |
| ADDISON | Surname of the dramatist, poet and essayist famous for his tragedy Cato and the 'Coverley' essays (7) |
| CARLYLE | Thomas ___, 19th-century Scottish historian and essayist (7) |
| DEQUINCEY | Critic and essayist who references his occupancy at his friend William Wordsworth's former house, Dove Cottage, in his memoir Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (2,7) |
| CALLIL | Carmen, Australian-born literary critic and founder of Virago Press (6) |
| THOREAU | Henry David, U.S. naturalist and essayist noted for his book Walden on simple living (7) |
| LAMBERT | Composer and essayist back on time? |
