Contemporary Literary Criticism | Lee, Laurie - Further Reading

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Berryman, John. "Waiting for the End, Boys." Partisan Review 15, No. 2 (February 1948): 254-67.

Comparative review of several poetry collections. Offering a mixed assessment of The Sun My Monument, Berryman faults Lee's use of rhyme, but acknowledges that he is most effective when he focuses on love or the natural world.

Review of I Can't Stay Long, by Laurie Lee. The New Yorker LII, No. 1 (23 February 1976): 116.

Favorable assessment of I Can't Stay Long.

Thwaite, Anthony. "Names and Images." The Spectator, No. 6944 (28 July 1961): 149.

Comparative review of John Wain's Weep before God, Frederick Grubb's Title Deeds, Charles Olson's The Distances, and Lee's The Sun My Monument. Thwaite finds Lee's poems unimpressive and "slight."

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