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Berger, Charles. "Poetry Chronicle." Raritan No. 3 (Winter 1991): 119-33.

Discusses Clampitt's work in context of Westward and calls Clampitt a formidable elegist.

Birkerts, Sven. "Amy Clampitt/Christopher Janecorkery." in The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry, pp. 305-08. New York: Williams Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989.

Compares The Kingfisher with What the Light Was Like and says the newer collection is strong and shows a sense of wholeness though sometimes the Baroque degenerates to Rococo.

Kirby, David. "Life's Goofy Splendors." New York Times Book Review (23 December 1990): 16.

Discusses Clampitt's Westward collection and says there is a "ceaseless current of laughter in it reflecting an appreciation of the incongruity inherent in everything.

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1. Introduction
2. Principal Works
3. Criticism
   1. J. D. McCIatchy (review date 1983)
   2. Patricia Morrisroe (essay date 1984)
   3. Sandra M. Gilbert (review date 1985)
   4. J. D. McClatchy (essay date 1989)
   5. Blake Morrison (review date 1990)
   6. Helen Vendler (review date 1991)
   7. Amy Clampitt (essay date 1993)
   8. Phoebe Pettingell (review date 1994)
   9. Robert B. Shaw (essay date 1994)
4. Further Reading
5. Copyright

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