Bedtime Story | Critical Overview
Writing for the Dictionary of Literary Biography, Lawrence Ries says of MacBeth’s poetry that “The critical response to the individual publications has been mixed: angry, admiring, frustrated, laudatory.” Ries further observes the difficulty reviewers and literary historians have had in placing MacBeth in an established literary category, or movement, even though he was associated to some extent with The Group, a gathering of poets who attempted to rejuvenate poetry readings and gatherings, among other endeavors. Critic M. L. Rosenthal, writing in The New Poets: American...
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