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March 23, 1963
You Probably Haven’t Read Robert Frost’s Best Poems
There's way more to Frost than "The Road Not Taken."
May 27, 1957
John Milton Muddles Through
October 4, 1953
Ambiguities in Italian Literature
May 12, 1952
Hardy—Old Poet
August 27, 1951
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Love From Emily
To Emily Dickinson, little besides love, human and divine, was worth writing about, and often the two seemed to fuse.
May 7, 1951
Letter from Paris: Gide, Sartre and Café Communism
November 11, 1945
Samson Without Delilah
September 22, 1941
Nabokov's Perfect, Cheeky Response to a Reader Who Tried to Correct Him
February 9, 1937
Willa Cather
March 5, 1935
Homage to Robert Herrick
May 13, 1931
This Is What It Was Like to Go to James Joyce’s Birthday Party
And have him chat with you about his favorite novels.
December 8, 1926
Poe at Home and Abroad
Critic Edmund Wilson reflects on the great writer's legacy.
February 4, 1925
Lytton Strachey Explains What a Strange, Marvelous Creature the Inventor of Modern Biography Was
March 21, 1923
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Realism in France
Honoré de Balzac and an assessment of the importance of realism in French literature
October 26, 1921
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The Motive of the Critic
It is simply a desire for self-expression, a thirst to function more broadly and brilliantly than the general, obscure in origin but irresistible in force.
February 6, 1915
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The Death of the Hired Man

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