Daniel Hoffman (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Other Literary Forms
Daniel Hoffman is as well known for his literary criticism as for his poetry. He began his
scholarly career by exploring myth and folklore, primarily in American literature. In Paul
Bunyan (1952), he examines the effect of folk materials on literary forms. The story of the
master-logger Paul Bunyan is interesting to Hoffman because for such writers as Robert Frost, Carl
Sandburg, [The entire page is 4234 words long]
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