CRITICISM

Callahan, John F. “Reconsideration: The Higher Ground of Alice Walker.” The New Republic 171, No. 11 (14 September 1974): 21-22.

Re-examines Walker's first two volumes of poetry, along with a novel and short-story collection, finding her work rich with tradition and beauty.

Isie, Peat. “Books about the South.” Southern Living 26, No. 12 (December 1991): 83.

Review of Her Blue Body Everything We Know, calling it a book “to be savored.”

Rosen, John. A review of Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful, by Alice Walker New York Times Book Review (7 April 1985): 12.

Deems Walker's work “overpraised” in general and Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautifulin particular simplistic and shallow.

Williamson, Alan. A review of Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning, by Alice Walker. Poetry CXXXV, No. 6 (March 1980): 348-54.

Finds Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning to contain “moments of comparable intensity” but more often “sinks to the level of a kind of popular wisdom-poetry.”

Additional coverage of Walker's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Vol. 3; Bestsellers, 89: 4; Black Literature Criticism, Vol. 3; Black Writers, Vol. 2; Contemporary Authors, Vol. 37-40R; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 9, 27, 49, 66; Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1968-1988; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 5, 6, 9, 19, 27, 46, 58, 103; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 6, 33, 143; DISCovering Authors; DISCovering Authors; British; DISCovering Authors Canadian; DISCovering Authors Modules: Most-Studied, Multicultural, Novelists, Poets and Popular Fiction and Genre Authors; Major Twentieth-Century Writers, Vols. 1, 2; Something about the Author,Vol. 31; Short Story Criticism, Vol. 5; and World Literature Criticism Supplement.