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The first literary critic was born when someone said “I didn’t like it” and wouldn’t shut up.

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Literary criticism is ancient, with Plato and Aristotle writing about poetry in classical Greece. Aristotle's Poetics is a famous early work, so the field wasn't started by one unhappy reader.

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