SOURCE: "Placing Miss Porter," in The New Republic, Vol. 162, No. 10, March 7, 1970, pp. 25-6.
In the following review, Samuels offers a mixed assessment of Porter's The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings, praising the author's technical skill while finding weakness in the substance of her writings.
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