Category: Book Review

Awe for Auden

Elegy in the Neo-Shadow: Forms and Variations

The Judgment of Poetry

Baggy Monsters and Tangled Tales

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Not Today’s Conservative

Philip Glass, Maximalist?

Merrill’s Intimations

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What Happened to the New Formalism

I Bite Rooks

Fiction Chronicle

Dream of Fair to Middling Poetry

Visions, Vessels, Voices

Back to the Future

Saul Bellow, Human Being

Gladys Schmitt: Hardly “Middlebrow”

The Prose Eliot

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The Publicity Hound

These Days in the Holocene

Ghosts on a Gold Mountain

Mazzaro, Vendler, Freud & Co.

For Better or Worse: The Year’s Verse

Ezra Pound

Ariel and Co.

Literary Fiction

Life Itself

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Living in Earnest

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On the Tennessee (Williams) Trail

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Teaching Shakespeare

Magic Words

Double Lives

You Must Be Suffering from Poetry

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The Fame of Derek Walcott

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Dancing at Auschwitz and Other Reckonings

I Suppose You to Be No Mean Reader, Since You Intend to Read Homer

Native Boundaries

George Eliot and Her Critics

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A New Tennyson

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Ellington

Seasons and Reasons

How the Founders Lived

Dogs and Letters

Meditated Stealth: The Life of Marianne Moore

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Reading Swift

Whose Salinger?

Science and Technology, Again

Lives of a Poet: Denise Levertov

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Levels of Ambition

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Death and the Writer

Oppositional Symmetry

Augustan Satire Reconsidered

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