Category: Criticism

Holroyd/Strachey/Shaw: Art and Archives in Literary Biography

Landscape and Fiction: Jean Renoir’s Country Excursion

Talking Back to the Speaker

An American Woman of Letters

Helen Vendler, Poetry Critic

Northrop Frye and the Anatomy of Wit

Goethe in English

Montaigne Our Contemporary

Zola and Manet: 1866

The Poet’s Theme

Windows: From Rousseau to Baudelaire, by Jean Starobinski

Windows: From Rousseau to Baudelaire, trans. by Richard Pevear

The History of a Little Girls’ Game

Jekyll/Hyde

Notes on the New Formalism

The Poetry of Ted Hughes

The Squirrel’s Heartbeat: Some Thoughts on the Later Style of Henry James

Tuesday at the Met

The Successful Career of Robert Bly

Phaedra in Tact

The Lives and Deaths of Charlotte Brontë: A Case of Literary Politics

Writer and Region

The Devil and American Epic

A Sad and Beautiful Film

Hamlet’s Older Brother

Brothers Under the Skin: O’Neill and Williams

Jazz: The Aesthetics of Imperfection

The Lesson of the Tower

Departure of the Body Snatchers, or the Confessions of a Carbon Chauvinist

The Reckless Disciple: Godwin’s Shelley

Jude the Obscure and the Fall of Phaethon

Milosz and the Moral Authority of Poetry

William James as Culture Hero

I Think, Therefore I Dream

Leonard Woolf and His Virgins

The Book of Proverbs

Tocqueville and the Burden of Liberty

The Critic as Anti-Hero: War Poetry

The Roots of Prophecy: Orwell and Nature

Disorder and Escape in the Fiction of V.S. Naipaul

Anthony Powell’s Gift

The Public Servant

Even-Handed Oddness: George Gissing’s The Odd Women

The Last Great Composer

The Double Vision of Greek Tragedy

Illuminated Books

The Barrier of a Common Language: British Poetry in the Eighties

Lyric Narration: The Chameleon Poet

I Only Like It Better When the Pain Comes: More Notes Toward a Cultural Definition of Prizefighting

Flaubert in Egypt