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  1. [+]
    Abstractions and Indemnities (2 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    Introduction to Wallace Stevens, by Henry W. Wells
    1. Introduction to Wallace Stevens by Henry W. Wells
    2. Wallace Stevens: Images and Judgments by John J. Enck
    The Saturday Review, May 30, 1964, p. 43
  2. [+]
    A Cloud of Quiet Terror (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Drunk in the Furnace, by W.S. Merwin
    1. The Drunk in the Furnace by W.S. Merwin
    The Saturday Review, January 28, 1961, p. 30
  3. [+]
    Conversational Rhythm (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    An Apology Both Ways, by Richard Aldridge
    1. An Apology Both Ways by Richard Aldridge
    The Saturday Review, August 9, 1958, p. 33
  4. [+]
    Gothic and Chinoiseries (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Widening Horizons in English Verse, by John Holloway
    1. Widening Horizons in English Verse by John Holloway
    The Saturday Review, June 10, 1967, p. 45
  5. [+]
    "How Dreary to Be Somebody" (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Long Shadow, by Clark Griffith
    1. The Long Shadow by Clark Griffith
    The Saturday Review, May 30, 1964, p. 43
  6. [+]
    In Praise of the Innermost Self (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, by Harold W. Blodgett, Sculley Bradley, and Walt Whitma...
    1. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass by Harold W. Blodgett, Sculley Bradley, and Walt Whitman, ...
    The Saturday Review, February 27, 1965, p. 48
  7. [+]
    Ishmael in Rhyme (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Selected Poems of Herman Melville, by Hennig Cohen and Herman Melville
    1. Selected Poems of Herman Melville by Hennig Cohen and Herman Melville
    The Saturday Review, May 30, 1964, p. 43
  8. [+]
    The Lyre in the Larger Pattern (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    The New Poets, by M.L. Rosenthal
    1. The New Poets by M.L. Rosenthal
    The Saturday Review, June 10, 1967, p. 45
  9. Accent on Poetry
    [+]
    Music of Many Voices (15 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy, by Thomas Hardy
    1. Selected Poems of Thomas Hardy by Thomas Hardy
    2. Collected Poems by Robert Graves
    3. The Poet and the Machine by Paul Ginestier
    4. Eighty-Five Poems by Louis MacNeice
    5. Collected Poems by Robert Hillyer
    6. The Fortune Teller by John Holmes
    7. Some Spanish Ballads by W.S. Merwin
    8. The Tree Witch by Peter Viereck
    9. Poems by Alan Dugan
    10. The Devil's Picture Book by Daryl Hine
    11. The Only Need by Brian Higgins
    12. Any Day by K.W. Gransden
    13. Poems and Translations by Thomas Kinsella
    14. The Many Islands by William Goodreau
    15. The Ungrateful Garden by Carolyn Kizer
    The Saturday Review, July 22, 1961, pp. 15-16
  10. [+]
    Offbeat Reality (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Outlanders, by Theodore Weiss
    1. Outlanders by Theodore Weiss
    The Saturday Review, January 28, 1961, p. 30
  11. [+]
    A Part of Knowledge (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Key of Remembrance, by Robert O. Payne
    1. The Key of Remembrance by Robert O. Payne
    The Saturday Review, June 15, 1963, p. 27
  12. [+]
    Poems of a Priest (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Time Without Number, by Daniel Berrigan
    1. Time Without Number by Daniel Berrigan
    The Saturday Review, November 9, 1957, p. 43
  13. [+]
    Poet of a Public Order (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Tennyson Laureate, by Valerie Pitt
    1. Tennyson Laureate by Valerie Pitt
    The Saturday Review, June 15, 1963, p. 27
  14. [+]
    Poetry Quarter (11 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    Other Voices, Other Rhythms
    1. Mayakovsky, and His Poetry by Herbert Marshall and Vladimir Mayakovsky
    2. The Demon, and Other Poems by Mikhail I. Lermontov
    3. The Poems of Doctor Zhivago by Boris L. Pasternak and Donald Davie
    4. Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight Macdonald and Edgar Allan Poe
    5. Collected Poems by Rolfe Humphries
    6. Events and Wisdoms by Donald Davie
    7. Buff by Roy Fuller
    8. Thrive Upon the Rock by Norman Rosten
    9. Testimony: The United States, 1885-1915 by Charles Reznikoff
    10. The Wooden Horse by Daryl Hine
    11. The Puritan Carpenter by Julia Randall
    The Saturday Review, February 19, 1966, pp. 42-43
  15. [+]
    Poetry Quarterly (30 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Poet's Other Voices, Other Rooms
    1. What Is Poetry? by John Hall Wheelock
    2. Poetry: A Closer Look by James M. Reid, John Ciardi, and Laurence Perrine, ...
    3. Sense and Sensibility in Modern Poetry by William Van O'Connor
    4. Patrocleia of Homer by Christopher Logue
    5. Yeats's "Vision" and the Later Plays by Helen Hennessy Vendler
    6. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays by Richard B. Sewall
    7. The Last Alternatives by R.K. Meiners
    8. The Modern Poets by John Malcolm Brinnin and Bill Read
    9. The Ring of Words by Philip Lieson Miller
    10. New Poets of Ireland by Donald Carroll
    11. Sailing to an Island by Richard Murphy
    12. Selected Poems by John Crowe Ransom
    13. Selected Poems of Vachel Lindsay by Vachel Lindsay
    14. Weather and Season by Michael Hamburger
    15. The Moving Target by W.S. Merwin
    16. A Year and A Day by Carlos Baker
    17. Selected Poems by John Malcolm Brinnin
    18. A Sigh Is the Sword by Herman Salinger
    19. Caged in an Animal's Mind by Stanley Burnshaw
    20. Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960 by Allen Ginsberg
    21. The Hungry Lions by Joanne de Longchamps
    22. The Wheel of Summer by Joseph Langland
    23. Progressions, and Other Poems by Albert Spaulding Cook
    24. Eve's Daughter by Hannah Kahn
    25. The Owl in the Tree by Anthony Thwaite
    26. Story Hour by Sara Henderson Hay
    27. Telephone Poles, and Other Poems by John Updike
    28. A Peopled Landscape by Charles Tomlinson
    29. Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
    30. A Road Came Once by Milton Kessler
    The Saturday Review, February 1, 1964, p. 36
  16. [+]
    Poetry Quarterly (23 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    The New Poetry of Protest
    1. To Live and Die in Dixie, and Other Poems by John Beecher
    2. Selected Poems by Robert Earl Hayden
    3. White Paper by George Starbuck
    4. Damned Ugly Children by Andrew Glaze
    5. Domains by James Whitehead
    6. On the Edge of the Volcano by Jozsef Pesti
    7. South of the Zambesi by Guy Butler
    8. The New Russian Poets, 1953 to 1966 by George Reavey
    9. Northfield Poems by A.R. Ammons
    10. An Upland Pasture by Theodore Holmes
    11. Mostly People by Jeannette Nichols
    12. Watchboy, What of the Night by Turner Cassity
    13. Six Mile Corner by Robert Dawson
    14. Changing the Windows by Jerome Mazzaro
    15. The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale by Sara Teasdale
    16. Selected Poems by Jones Very
    17. Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966 by Robert Penn Warren
    18. All: The Collected Short Poems, 1956-1964 by Louis Zukofsky
    19. The Necklace by Charles Tomlinson
    20. The Cutting Edge by John Woods
    21. Battle Report by Harvey Shapiro
    22. Looking Up at Leaves by Barbara Howes
    23. Hallelujah Anyway by Kenneth Patchen
    The Saturday Review, February 11, 1967, pp. 38-39
  17. [+]
    Poetry Quarterly (20 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Blue God, by Louis Mertins
    1. The Blue God by Louis Mertins
    2. The Collected Longer Poems by Kenneth Rexroth
    3. Incarnations by Robert Penn Warren
    4. Firstborn by Louise Gluck
    5. Inside the Blood Factory by Diane Wakoski
    6. The Marriage Wig, and Other Poems by Ruth Whitman
    7. Unlawful Assembly by D.J. Enright
    8. In, On, or About the Premises by Paul Blackburn
    9. The Most Difficult Area by Kenneth White
    10. Ungainly Things by Robert Wallace
    11. The Last Day and the First by Theodore R. Weiss
    12. A Windmill Near Calvary by Keith Waldrop
    13. White-Haired Lover by Karl Jay Shapiro
    14. Rings on a Tree by Norman MacCaig
    15. The Echo at Coole, and Other Poems by Austin Clarke
    16. Daylight Astronomy by Edward J.L. Lowbury
    17. Minutes by Daryl Hine
    18. I Play Flute, and Other Poems by Jane Stembridge
    19. Dragging the Main, and Other Poems by David Ray
    20. One Eye and a Measuring Rod by John L'Heureux
    The Saturday Review, March 15, 1969, pp. 33-34
  18. [+]
    Poetry Quarterly (22 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    Betwixt Tradition and Innovation
    1. Poems, 1934-1969 by David Ignatow
    2. The Brownings: Letters and Poetry by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ...
    3. Autobiography by Louis Zukofsky
    4. No Continuing City by Michael Longley
    5. Eyes Closed Against the Sun by Douglas Livingstone
    6. Allegiances by William Stafford
    7. Broken Laws by Daniel G. Hoffman
    8. The Nightmare Factory by Maxine Kumin
    9. New Poems by John Holloway
    10. Let Not Your Hart by James Seay
    11. The Gulf, and Other Poems by Derek Walcott
    12. Fifty Poems Fifty by Reed Whittemore
    13. Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt by Richard Brautigan
    14. The Immaculate by Allen Katzman
    15. Livingdying by Cid Corman
    16. Trial Poems by Daniel Berrigan and Tom Lewis
    17. Relearning the Alphabet by Denise Levertov
    18. The Garbage Wars by Donald Finkel
    19. Laughing by Paul Hannigan
    20. When Thy King Is a Boy by Ed Roberson
    21. Magic Papers, and Other Poems by Irving Feldman
    22. On the Edge of the Knife by Charles Edward Eaton
    The Saturday Review, December 26, 1970, p. 24
  19. [+]
    The Poet's Voice in the Crowd (2 Reviews)
    Robert Donald Spector
    About the House, by W.H. Auden
    1. About the House by W.H. Auden
    2. Harlem Gallery: Book I, The Curator by M.B. Tolson
    The Saturday Review, August 7, 1965, p. 29
  20. [+]
    A Quiet Voice (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Relic and Other Poems, by Robert Hillyer
    1. The Relic and Other Poems by Robert Hillyer
    The Saturday Review, November 9, 1957, p. 44
  21. [+]
    Literary Criticism (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Auden's Poetry, by Justin Replogle
    1. Auden's Poetry by Justin Replogle
    The Saturday Review, June 21, 1969, p. 55
  22. [+]
    Wit Twister (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe, by Daniel Hoffman
    1. Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe by Daniel Hoffman
    The Saturday Review, April 15, 1972, p. 73
  23. [+]
    Literary Crypt (2 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    Concurring Beasts, by Stephen Dobyns
    1. Concurring Beasts by Stephen Dobyns
    2. They Feed They Lion by Philip Levine
    The Saturday Review, March 11, 1972, p. 80
  24. [+]
    Synthesizing Opposing Elements (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Major Themes of Robert Frost, by Radcliffe Squires
    1. The Major Themes of Robert Frost by Radcliffe Squires
    The Saturday Review, June 15, 1963, p. 27
  25. [+]
    Unheard Hints (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    On the Way to the Island, by David Ferry
    1. On the Way to the Island by David Ferry
    The Saturday Review, December 10, 1960, p. 34
  26. [+]
    A Voice Apart (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Wage War on Silence, by Vassar Miller
    1. Wage War on Silence by Vassar Miller
    The Saturday Review, February 11, 1961, p. 67
  27. [+]
    A Way to Say What a Man Can See (24 Reviews)
    Robert D. Spector
    The Suspect in Poetry, by James Dickey
    1. The Suspect in Poetry by James Dickey
    2. For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
    3. Change of Weather by Winfield Townley Scott
    4. Person to Person by John Ciardi
    5. Roots and Branches by Robert Edward Duncan
    6. New and Selected Poems by Samuel Yellen
    7. Figures of the Human by David Ignatow
    8. Selected Poems by Oscar Williams
    9. Poems by B.S. Johnson
    10. The Whitsun Weddings by Philip Larkin
    11. Man Does, Woman Is by Robert Graves
    12. Recoveries by Elizabeth Jennings
    13. A Breathing Space by Thomas Blackburn
    14. The World, the Worldless by William Bronk
    15. Preambles and Other Poems by Alvin Feinman
    16. Rhymes of a Pfc by Lincoln Kirstein
    17. The Window by Vern Rutsala
    18. A Circle of Stone by Miller Williams
    19. Four Infinitives by Thomas Whitbread
    20. Arms of Light by Claire McAllister
    21. Of Poetry and Power by Erwin A. Glikes and Paul Schwaber
    22. Poets of Today by Walter Lowenfels
    23. Six American Poets
    24. Five Metaphysical Poets by Joan Bennett
    The Saturday Review, February 13, 1965, pp. 46-48
  28. [+]
    Wide Vision for Narrow Verse (Review)
    Robert D. Spector
    Start with the Sun, by James E. Miller, Jr., Karl Shapiro, and Bernice Slote, ...
    1. Start with the Sun by James E. Miller, Jr., Karl Shapiro, and Bernice Slote, ...
    The Saturday Review, August 27, 1960, p. 26
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