Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
[In the severe isolation of David Canaan in The Mountain and the Valley, one encounters an] attempt to discover new ground upon which the withdrawn self might stand i...
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Critical Essay by Alan R. Young
Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley (1952) is a fine example of the pastoral impulse, and its meaning is greatly illuminated when viewed within the fra...
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Critical Essay by Alan R. Young
[One must be grateful] that at last there is an available anthology of Buckler's stories. What they reveal collectively is that Buckler's gifts as a fict...
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Critical Essay by Robert D. Chambers
The particular interest of Buckler's early sketches and stories is in following themes and characters which would appear in more serious and mature form in...
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Critical Essay by Linda Sandler
Buckler was not entirely certain that his readers shared his knowledge and assumptions about rural life. In 'The Wild Goose' … his account of the ...
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Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
