British literary critic and Marxist theorist. His Literary Theory: An Introduction (1983) is a standard textbook for literature students, in China as elsewhere.
The name is built sound by sound: 伊 for 'Ea-', 格 for '-g-', 尔 for '-l-' and 顿 for '-ton', the standard ending for '-ton' names, as in 牛顿 (Newton) and 华盛顿 (Washington).