Patricia Meyer Spacks

Graham Greene offered the same accolade as for her previous novel, recognizing its disappointing reception with: What fools the reviewers have been.A. S. Byatt admired the mocking and sinister games played by the...

Many reviews were harsh. Patricia Meyer Spacks felt that the writing here was swamped in sentimentality, the religious poems especially rendered unconvincing by embarrassments of religious pretension. Overall, for Spacks, the poetry was simply not...

Patricia Meyer Spacks in the New York Times struggled to find equibrilium between three elements: the contemporary appeal of despair and suicide, sentimentally handled, the authenticity conferred on Sexton's feelings by her death, and the...

The same year Broadview Press issued her Selected Poems, with four portraits and the illustrations by Maria Cosway , engraved by Caroline Watson , to her poem A Wintry Day. These were followed...

Patricia Meyer Spacks has identified CPG as exemplifying the remarkably devious relationship possible between a woman and her work. Gilman herself made a sustained effort throughout her life to devalue the quality of her...

The emphasis placed on ML by Roger Lonsdale in his revolutionary Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 1989, was welcomed by reviewers.Donna Landry , virtually originating the late twentieth-century interest in labouring-class women poets of this...

According to Patrica Spacks , CPG displays no real sense of personal identity in The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She denies the implicit egotism of autobiography by insisting that the self is less...

In September the following year, however, she reviewed The Female Imagination by Patricia Meyer Spacks , and reproved the author for whining. Perhaps, she wrote, we have had too much of this woman business.