The Antioch Review, March 22nd, 2000
E.B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist by Robert L. Root, Jr. University of Iowa Press, 243 pp., $29.95. We consider E. B. White an essayist based on reverence for his essays "Once More to the Lake" and "Death of a Pig," and perhaps a few others. But these works are not representative of his larger oeuvre, and White applied the label of essayist to himself only late in life. Root, English professor and editor of a collection of critical essays on White, names White an essayist, not because he created a large body of work unified in structure and subject, but rather because of the tone and ...
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