Hart Crane’s The Bridge, 1932
"A form of hysteria…One thing he has demonstrated, the impossibility of getting anywhere with the Whitmanian inspiration. No writer of comparable ability has struggled with it before and it seems highly unlikely that any writer of comparable genius will struggle with it again."
Yvor Winters, Poetry
Emily Dickinson, 1892
"An eccentric, dreamy, half-educated recluse in an out-of-the-way New England village—or anywhere else—cannot with impunity set at defiance the laws of gravitation and grammar…Oblivion lingers in the immediate neighborhood."
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Atlantic Monthly
Reviews originally compiled by Bill Henderson in Rotten Reviews.
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