Synopses & Reviews
Review
"This companion volume to volume 5 on English criticism, 1900—1950, covers criticism from the American impressionists and naturalists, the New Humanists, the Chicago Aristotelians through Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, and the New Criticism to the work of Blackmur, Burke, Winters, and Wimsatt. Especially salutary is the vigorous defense of the New Criticism against the standard misleading attacks. Also notable is the restrained but nonetheless forceful 'Postscript,' which eloquently objects to the skeptical and nihilistic tendencies in recent American criticism." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)