Rebecca West's career as a writer of both fiction and of nonfiction spanned more than seventy years. She excelled in writing novels and short stories, literary theory and criticism, biography, politic...
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Critical Essay by Philip Littell
What kind of book about Henry James would you expect from a vivid and eager young radical, whose own interest in politics and history is prodigious, who has a keen app...
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Critical Essay by Donald A. Stauffer
Style is the man. The adage need not be changed in gender to include Miss West, for she writes with such force as to make most male writers appear effeminate. A ri...
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Critical Essay by Elizabeth Janeway
[Fifteen] years after "Black Lamb and Grey Falcon," Miss West publishes a new novel ["The Fountain Overflows"], a real Dickensian Christ...
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Critical Essay by William Esty
As a novelist, Rebecca West resembles Cordelia, one of the characters in her own book, The Fountain Overflows, a hopelessly unmusical girl in a musical family, whose unf...
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Critical Essay by The Times Literary Supplement
The Fountain Overflows is Miss Rebecca West's first novel for twenty-one years and is indeed only her sixth work of fiction. That this should be ...
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Critical Essay by Jacob Korg
The Court and the Castle is a series of critical observations about various literary works held loosely together by a concern with how great writers from Shakespeare to Ka...
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Critical Essay by Rosemary Dinnage
The current interest in Rebecca West's work, even if it is partly due to the pursuit of every and any feminist writer and partly homage to her age, is well de...
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Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review
Rebecca West's new novel ["The Judge"] is a brilliant piece of work, forceful, impressive, haunting with a sense of instanceȂ...
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Critical Essay by New Statesman
The Strange Necessity is almost as tedious as Das Kapital, and with much less justification. It is so intrinsically unreadable that the printer's reader will sur...
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Critical Essay by Ernest Sutherland Bates
["St. Augustine"] stands out above its predecessors both in beauty of style and significance of thought. A popular biography only in being easy ...
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Critical Essay by William Plomer
[The] four "short novels" which Miss Rebecca West has collected under the title of The Harsh Voice are a significant expression of current truths, though...
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Critical Essay by Edith H. Walton
Turning her agile talent to a rather difficult medium Rebecca West has produced four miniature novels, or long short stories, which are chiefly remarkable for their t...
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Critical Essay by Mary Ross
"Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed," wrote Pascal in the passage from which the title of Rebecca West's new...
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Rebecca West
