Quora answer: Who is the most interesting literary critic?
Harold Bloom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Bloom
Especially for . . .
A Map of Misreading. New York: Oxford University Press, 1975.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetic_tradition
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry. New York: Oxford University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence