Arthur Walton Litz Jr. (October 31, 1929, in Nashville, Tennessee[1][2] – June 4, 2014)[3] was an American literary historian and critic who served as professor of English Literature at Princeton University from 1956 to 1993.

He was the author or editor of over twenty collections of literary criticism, including various editions of Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Wallace Stevens, and T. S. Eliot.

in English from Princeton University in 1951 after completing a senior thesis titled "Yoknapatawpha: A Study of William Faulkner's Moral Vision.

[6] After two years' service in the U.S. Army,[2] he became the Holmes Professor of Belles-Lettres at Princeton in 1956, where he worked until his retirement in 1994.

[5] He died of respiratory failure on June 4, 2014, aged 84, at University Medical Center of Princeton in Plainsboro, New Jersey.