Selected Critical Essays

Human Nature's West (Emily Dickinson)
I'll Take My Stand: An Introduction
Essay on "Reconstructed but Unregenerate" (John Crowe Ransom)
Essay on "A Mirror for Artists" (Donald Davidson)
Essay on "The Irrepressible Conflict" (Frank Lawrence Owsley)
Essay on "Education, Past and Present" (John Gould Fletcher)
Essay on "Critique of the Philosophy of Progress" (Lyle Lanier)
Essay on "Remarks on the Southern Religion" (Allen Tate)
Essay on "Whither Southern Economy?" (Herman Clarence Nixon)
Essay on "The Hind Tit" (Andrew Nelson Lytle)
Essay on "The Briar Patch" (Robert Penn Warren)
Essay on "The Life and Death of Cousin Lucius" (John D. Wade)
Essay on "William Remington: A Study in Individualism" (Henry Kline)
Essay on "Not in Memoriam, But in Defense" (Stark Young)
Life and Death in The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
Mr. Scrooge and Social Awareness (Charles Dickens)
Not a Fly, But a King (Emily Dickinson)
Rip Van Winkle: A Study of a Man without a History (Washington Irving)
Scorched Earth: From Destruction to Regeneration (James Kibler)
The Biblical Allusions of Billy Budd (Herman Melville)
The Nonconformity of the Ex-Colored Man (James Weldon Johnson)
Poe's Philosophy of Beauty (Edgar Allan Poe)
Ransy Sniffle: The Consummate Busybody (Augustus Baldwin Longstreet)
The Seduction of Camelot (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)