Since time has not diminished either the importance or the relevance of major critical essays from The Hudson Review, this archive constitutes an important history of literary criticism in America from Volume 1 in 1948 to the present. The poetry included demonstrates how The Hudson Review championed from the beginning those poets who became modern masters and, in this new format, preserves the voice of the poet* along with the poem.

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title
volume/year
Mark Schorer
Technique as Discovery
I, 1 / Spring 1948
Hugh Kenner
Eliot's Moral Dialectic
II, 3 / Autumn 1949
T. S. Eliot
From Poe to Valéry
II, 3 / Autumn 1949
William Empson
Wit in the Essay on Criticism
II, 4 / Winter 1950
Susanne K. Langer
The Principles of Creation in Art
II, 4 / Winter 1950
Wallace Stevens
The Course of a Particular
IV, 1 / Spring 1951
Robert Graves
The Language of Myth: Addenda to The White Goddess
IV, 1 / Spring 1951
Edwin Muir
The Animals
IV, 4 / Winter 1952
Allen Tate
The Swimmers
V, 4 / Winter 1953
Louis Simpson
West
VI, 3 / Autumn 1953
André Malraux
Lawrence and the Demon of the Absolute
VIII, 4 / Winter 1956
Hayden Carruth
Cappadocian Song
X, 1 / Spring 1957
Anthony Hecht
The End of the Weekend
XII, 3 / Autumn 1959
Galway Kinnell
The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ into the New World
XII, 4 / Winter 1959–60
William Carlos Williams
Pictures from Brueghel
XIII, 1 / Spring 1960
X. J. Kennedy
First Confession
XIII, 4 / Winter 1960–61
Maxine Kumin
Morning Swim
XV, 1 / Spring 1962
Mark Twain
Reflections on Religion
XVI, 3 / Autumn 1963
Daniel Hoffman
The Way He Went
XIX, 2 / Summer 1966
Herbert Read
The Cult of Sincerity
XXI, 1 / Spring 1968

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* Originally recorded by Speakeasy Literary Audio, Inc., in 2002 for the CD Along These Lines. Producer & narrator: Dan Stone. Project director: Jon Mooallem. In some cases, the audio versions reflect revisions by the poets. Frederick Morgan, a founding editor of The Hudson Review, reads the work of four early poets.