Critical Essays on Louise Bogan

The only collection of critical work about the poetry of Louise Bogan (1897-1970), this book opens with an extensive introduction by editor Martha Collins that charts the poet’s development and offers a thorough discussion of critical responses to her work. Among the thirty previously published essays and reviews that follow are discussions by many of Bogan’s contemporaries, including Ford Madox Ford, W.H. Auden, Malcolm Cowley, Marianne Moore, and Theodore Roethke. The volume concludes with five previously unpublished essays.