This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.

Table of Contents:
Part 1 Early Reviews; Chapter 1 Shaemas O Sheel, from ‘Chicago Poets and Poetry’, Minaret; Chapter 2 Anonymous, from the New York Times; Chapter 3 Ralph Block, from ‘The Wisconsin Players Now at the Neighborhood Playhouse’, New York Tribune; Chapter 4 Conrad Aiken, on Stevens’ ‘delicate originality’ of mind, from Scepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry; Chapter 5 Carl Sandburg, from a letter to Louis Untermeyer about The New Era in American Poetry; Chapter 6 Conrad Aiken, on Stevens and the sociological-nationalistic view of poetry, New Republic; Chapter 7 Harriet Monroe, from ‘Mr. Yeats and the Poetic Drama’, Poetry; Chapter 8 Yvor Winters, from’A Cool Master’, Poetry; Part 2 Harmonium; Chapter 9 Mark Van Doren, ‘Poets and Wits’, Nation; Chapter 10 Matthew Josephson, on ‘an extraordinary personality’, Broom; Chapter 11 Marjorie Allen Seiffert, from ‘The Intellectual Tropics’, Poetry; Chapter 12 John Gould Fletcher, from ‘The Revival of Estheticism’, Freeman; Chapter 13 Marianne Moore, ‘Well Moused, Lion’, Dial; Chapter 14 Allen Tate, on Wallace Stevens as ‘radical’, Nashville Tennessean; Chapter 15 Harriet Monroe, on ‘a flavorously original poetic personality’, Poetry; Chapter 16 Edmund Wilson, on Stevens’ lack of emotion, New Republic; Chapter 17 Llewelyn Powys, ‘The Thirteenth Way’, Dial; Chapter 18 Louis Untermeyer, on ‘a reticence which results in determined obscurity’, Yale Review; Chapter 19 Paul Rosenfeld, on ‘Another Pierrot’, from Men Seen — Twenty-Four Modern Authors; Chapter 20 Gorham B. Munson, ‘The Dandyism of Wallace Stevens’, Dial; Chapter 21 Allen Tate, on Stevens’ underlying Puritanism, from ‘American Poetry Since 1920’, Bookman; Chapter 22 Alfred Kreymborg, on Stevens as one of the ‘Originals and Eccentrics’, from Our Singing Strength; Part 3 Harmonium; Chapter 23 Conrad Aiken, on Stevens as humorist, from a letter to R.P. Blackmur; Chapter 24 Percy Hutchison, ‘Pure Poetry and Mr. Wallace Stevens’, New York Times Book Review; Chapter 25 Eda Lou