Reviewed:

Obbligati: Essays in Criticism

by Anthony Hecht. Atheneum, 1986.

Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism

edited by Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer. Cornell University Press, 1986.

Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name

by Vicki Hearne. Knopf, 1986.

Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane

by Michael Fried. University of Chicago Press, 1987.

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Reviewed:

An Alternative to Speech

by David Lehman. Princeton University Press, 1986.

Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms

edited by David Lehman. Macmillan, 1987.

Reviewed:

Mrs. Randall

by Christopher T. Leland. Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Less Than One: Selected Essays

by Joseph Brodsky. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.

The Minute Hand

by Jane Shore. University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.

Continent

by Jim Crace. Harper & Row, 1986.

Walking Distance

by Marian Thurm. Random House, 1987.