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“... than the Romantics. In Defence of Reading was the title of the volume edited by Reuben Brower and Richard Poirier to which he contributed a remarkably balanced essay on ‘Symbolic Landscape in Wordsworth and Yeats’. Ten years later, in ‘The Rhetoric of Temporality’ (Blindness and Insight), his redefinition of allegory deconstructed a poetics of ...”

“... turn on.’ Thomas’s canny ‘if’ keeps the poem open in ways that Frost may not have wanted. Richard Poirier suggested that he ‘often seems afraid even of his own poetry’, and I think this is true of Frost’s response to ‘The Road Not Taken’. It made him want to disavow a feeling he’d suddenly found himself creeping up on. Even if one ...”

“... of the modernist canon. Protective of its cub, Partisan Review runs a judicious appreciation by Richard Poirier (one of Mailer’s early academic champions), but no chorus rises to proclaim Podhoretz the bold young successor to Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Stanley Edgar Hyman and Mary McCarthy in the Quality Lit Crit Biz. He is needled ...”

“... did not intend the city’s siege but had ‘bumbled into it’. Commenting on this volte-face, Richard Poirier wrote in Raritan Review that ‘the feelings aroused in Chancellor (and in millions of viewers presumably) by the television footage simply had no place to go outside the programme.’ Far from just changing his mind from one week to the ...”