Criticism

Burt, Stephen. A Review of Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder. Yale Review 85, No. 3 (July 1987): 150-54.

Mixed review of Mountains and Rivers Without End.

Carpenter, David A. "Gary Snyder's Inhumanism, from Riprap to Axe Handles." South Dakota Review 26, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 110-38.

Argues that Snyder has allowed political messages to overshadow the creative voice of his poetry.

Costello, Bonnie. "The Soil and Man's Intelligence: Three Contemporary Landscape Poets." Contemporary Literature 30, No. 3 (Fall 1989): 412-33.

Explores the varying conceptualizations of landscape in the poetry of A. R. Ammons, Charles Wright, and Snyder.

Denney, Reuel. "The Portable Pagoda: Asia and America in the Work of Gary Snyder." In Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue: New Cultural Identities, pp. 115-36, edited by Guy Amirthanayagam. London: Macmillan Press, 1982.

Considers the American and Asian influences on Snyder's poetry.

Duane, Daniel. "A Poem, 40 Years Long." New York Times Magazine (6 October 1996): 62.

Reviews Mountains and Rivers Without End and explains the collection's forty-year history.

Howard, Richard. "Three Found Poets." Poetry CXXVI, No. 6 (September 1975): 346-51.

Praises the style and themes of the poetry in Turtle Island.

Howes, Victor. "Poets on Different Borders." Christian Science Monitor (29 May 1968): 11.

Reviews The Back Country and describes Snyder's poetry as plain and spare.

Klien, Michael. "Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light." The Kenyon Review XVI, No. 1 (Winter 1994): 198-205.

Reviews No Nature and compares Snyder's earlier and more recent poetry.

Lavazzi, Tom. "Pattern of Flux: Sex, Buddhism, and Ecology in Gary Snyder's Poetry." Sagetrieb 8, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Fall 1989): 41-68.

Considers the unique methods Snyder employs to evoke his subject matter.

Leed, Jacob. "Gary Snyder: An Unpublished Preface." Journal of Modern Literature 13, No. 1 (March 1986): 177-79.

Considers Snyder's work as a translator of Japanese poetry.

Martin, Julia. "The Pattern Which Connects: Metaphor in Gary Snyder's Later Poetry." Western American Literature 22, No. 2 (Summer 1987): 99-123.

Argues that Snyder employs metaphor to address the interconnectedness of life.

McNally, Dennis. "Prophets on the Burning Shore: Jack Kerouac, Gary Snyder, and San Francisco." In A Literary History of the American West, pp. 482-95. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1987.

Compares the life and works of Snyder and Jack Kerouac.

Murphy, Patrick D. "Penance or Perception: Spirituality and Land in the Poetry of Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry." In Earthly Words: Essays on Contemporary American Nature and Environmental Writers, pp. 237-49, edited by John Cooley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.

Considers the work of Wendell Berry and Snyder in the context of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Murphy, Patrick D. "Two Different Paths in the Quest for Place: Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry." American Poetry 2, No. 1 (Fall 1984): 60-8.

Explores the similarities and differences in the environmental thinking of Wendell Berry and Snyder.

Nichols, William. "Environmentalism and the Legitimacy of Hope." The Kenyon Review XVIII, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 1996): 206-13.

Places Snyder's A Place in Space in the context of other contemporary environmental writing.

Parkinson, Thomas. "The Poetry of Gary Snyder." In American Writing Today, pp. 376-87, edited by Richard Kostelanetz. Troy, New York: Whitston Publishing Company, 1991.

Considers Snyder's use of prosody, meter, and rhythm.

Schultz, Robert and David Wyatt. "Gary Snyder and the Curve of Return." Virginia Quarterly Review 62, No. 4 (Autumn 1986): 681-94.

Considers the recurring themes in Snyder's works.