What is a person called if they study poems but do not write them?

word-usage literary-english poetry

I am doing a research paper for Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson. I do not know the term to use if I'm trying to talk about someone who studied the poems they made before they died. Can anyone help me find a term closest to this or a definition to help me?


Solution 1:

Literary critic.

A term for poetic studies specifically does not exist to the best of my knowledge.

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