Carlos Baker Summary

In the course of a long career Carlos Baker produced a considerable body of scholarship on the Romantic poets and on a variety of American authors, and wrote novels and poetry: but he is most widely r... Read more

In the following favorable review of Hemingway: The Writer as Artist, Mizener contends that Baker succeeds in focusing on Hemingway's “essential character” and considers the study... Read more

In the following essay, Schorer applauds the abundance of research and fact in Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, but perceives the biography as lacking interpretation and insight into the true character... Read more

In the following positive review of Hemingway's selected letters, Burgess praises Baker's fine editing job of the volume. As one who earns his precarious living by writing, I find the wr... Read more

In the following review, Oldsey contends that Hemingway's selected letters provide valuable insight into his life and work. A dying writer in “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” realizes t... Read more

In the following positive assessment of the selected letters, Hart claims that “the true Hemingway devotee will savor every word, and every brief explanatory footnote by Carlos Baker, who has d... Read more

In the following essay, Gleckner finds The Echoing Green limp and disappointing. Jacket copy, publishers believe, helps to sell books. Perhaps it will sell some copies of this book [The Echoing Green]... Read more

In the following positive review, Tuttleton asserts that Emerson Among the Eccentrics “is a massive, readable, at times witty, always erudite biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson.” At his de... Read more

In the following review, West compares Baker's treatment of Hemingway and his work in Hemingway: The Writer as Artist to Philip Young's Ernest Hemingway. Present-day criticism of Ernest ... Read more

In the following negative review, Redman deems A Friend in Power dull and unfavorably compares Baker's novel to C. P. Snow's The Masters. For some years now the groves of academe have be... Read more

In the following laudatory review of Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Hart praises Baker's prodigious accomplishment. On trouve au fond de tout le vide et le néant. —Eugéni... Read more

In the following unfavorable review, Hardwick describes Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story as “an extensive, exhausting, repetitive record of the events of Hemingway's life.” Carlos B... Read more