David Wagoner Summary

In the following essay, Howard surveys and praises Wagoner's works, emphasizing in the development in his novels and poetry a poetic intelligence that wrests a sense of positive identity from a... Read more

In the following essay, Hughes praises Wagoner's ability to convey the landscape and the processes of individual consciousness through the metaphorical use of natural phenomena. In Riverbed, Da... Read more

In the following review of the Collected Poems, 1956–1976, Oberg concludes Wagoner is a major poet. David Wagoner's Collected Poems brings together selections from two decades of writing... Read more

In the following excerpt, Flint celebrates Wagoner's nature/wilderness poetry. No sooner had Frost died than the Great West from Chicago to Seattle, Calgary to Santa Fe, was suddenly taken to b... Read more

In the following essay, despite his appreciation of Wagoner's poetic virtues, Peters sees him as a safe, nonadventurous poet with comfortable middle-class, middle-age sensibilities. The Blackbi... Read more

In the following essay, Askins discusses the difficulty facing poets who still write poetry of nature, and argues that although Wagoner succeeds as a nature poet, his poems lack outstanding and memora... Read more

In the following essay, McFarland surveys Wagoner's early poetry, and traces the development of his themes, technique, voice, and poetic identity. The year 1953 saw the publication of Theodore ... Read more