Critical Essay by Marcia Nardi
Honey Out of the Rock is far too self-conscious in expression to contain much of the rich warm emotional essence its title would suggest. The predominating feature of t...
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Critical Essay by Louis Kronenberger
"In Such a Night" is worked out so carefully, so skilfully, that it seems a pity the book should reach no higher level than it does. Here is an invi...
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Critical Essay by Hayden Carruth
Anyone who wants to study the difficulties of writing descriptive poetry should not neglect the work of Babette Deutsch, which deserves a more systematic discussion t...
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Critical Essay by George Garrett
The voice that sings through the poetry of Babette Deutsch is that of someone the reader would like to know and should. Her "Collected Poems 1919–1962&#...
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Critical Essay by George Scarbrough
Babette Deutsch has always impressed me as being a fine painter in words, capable of arresting an image in the mind's eye. Not that she is devoid of ideas. ...
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Critical Essay by Oliver Evans
While [Miss Deutsch's] work naturally reflects the changing traditions with which she has been familiar, her best poems have never been merely modish: like Miss ...
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Critical Essay by Nancy K. Mackenzie
"Poetry in Our Time" is more chronology than criticism—sometimes one paragraph per poet, sometimes pages. Miss Deutsch writes of the influenc...
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Critical Essay by Robert B. Shaw
To call a poet "professional" nowadays usually means that he is being mildly dull, writing the same poem many times over in a mildly competent way. But ...
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Critical Essay by Marcia Nardi
