The phrase "a critical work of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an important or significant piece of literature, art, or research that contributes to a particular field or subject.
Example: "The author has produced a critical work of literature that challenges conventional narratives and offers new perspectives."
Alternatives: "an essential piece of" or "a significant contribution to".
Intelligence is not a substitute for the critical work of diplomats on the ground — and perhaps no foreign policy issue demonstrates this more forcefully than Iran.
By eliminating long-established parity of income protection for home care patients, such a ruling undermines the critical work of the Long Term Home Health Care Program, which serves 25,000 nursing-home-eligible patients in New York in their own homes at 50percentt of the cost of institutional care.
This effect leads to a significant increase in the critical work of nucleation when pressure is applied.
"The city's shifting and contradictory positions have needlessly diverted the parties from the critical work of developing a new examination," he wrote.
I welcome this important step forward, and we will now focus on the critical work of pursuing a comprehensive resolution that addresses our concerns over Iran's nuclear programme".
Dowie's book advances the critical work of developing a new, more encompassing vision of nature, which makes it one of the most important contributions to conservation in many years.
I welcome this important step forward, and we will now focus on the critical work of pursuing a comprehensive resolution that addresses our concerns over Iran's nuclear program.
He combined his pastoral duties with other church offices, hymn-writing, and more general literary work which included a critical study of the complete works of the 17th-century cleric Jeremy Taylor.
He sold her letters and wrote a critical study of her work that she detested; she excoriated him in at least two novels and a volume of autobiography.
In 1948 she began work on a critical study of her father's music, a companion volume to her 1938 Holst biography.
