Further Reading
- Allen, Dick, "Signs of How We Must Seek," Hudson Review XLIII, No. 3 (Autumn 1990): 509–20. (Allen offers a positive assessment of In the Room We Share.)
- Connolly, Cyril, "From 'Academe and Open Air,'" in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazer, pp. 91–93. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. (In this review, originally published in 1972 upon the publication of North of Jamaica, Connolly discusses Simpson's personal background and his place among postwar American poets.)
- Cramer, Steven, "Four True Voices of Feeling," Poetry CLVII, No. 2 (November 1990): 96–114. (Cramer commends Simpson's effort to push the limits of his casual, understated poetry in In the Room We Share, but notes that the volume contains “marginal efforts and swollen, ambitious misfires.”)
- Dobyns, Stephen, "Will You Listen for a Minute?" New York Times Book Review (2 September 1990): 5. (Dobyns offers a positive assessment of In the Room We Share, praising the practiced voice present in Simpson's poetry, and commenting on Simpson's ability to infuse events of everyday life with import and significance.)
- Gray, Yohma, "The Poetry of Louis Simpson," TriQuarterly 5, No. 3 (Spring 1963): 33–39. (Gray discusses the lyrical style and the mixture of traditional forms with contemporary themes in Simpson's poetry.)
- Gwynn, R. S., "A Literary Warrior," Sewanee Review XCVIII, No. 2 (Spring 1990): xlvii-xlix. (Gwynn offers a positive assessment of Simpson's Selected Prose.)
- Hall, Donald, "From 'Uncharted Waters,'" in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazer, pp. 73–74. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. (In this review, originally published in 1964, Hall offers a positive assessment of Selected Poems.)
- Heyward, Michael, "Elegy and Outrage," Washington Post Book World (22 July 1990): 4. (Heyward offers an unfavorable assessment of In the Room We Share.)
- Howard, Richard, "The Hunger in My Vitals is For Some Credible Extravaganza," in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazer, pp. 209–32. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. (In this essay, originally published in 1969, Howard offers an analysis of Simpson's early verse, from The Arrivistes to At the End of the Open Road, focusing on the development of Simpson's formal style and his thematic concerns with mythology, history, and American life.)
- Jarman, Mark, "On Either Side of the Water," Hudson Review XLIX, No. 3 (Autumn 1996): 513–20. (Jarman offers a positive assessment of There You Are.)
- Lensing, George S., and Ronald Moran, "Louis Simpson," in Four Poets of the Emotive Imagination: Robert Bly, James Wright, Louis Simpson, and William Stafford, pp. 133–75. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. (Lensing and Moran provide an overview of Simpson's literary career and the development of his aesthetic concerns, poetic style, and major themes.)
- Rudolf, Anthony, "One of Life's Foot-Soldiers," in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazer, pp. 101–05. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. (In this review, originally published in 1973, Rudolf discusses Simpson's identity as a poet and his personal history, particularly his Jewish identity, as presented in North of Jamaica.)
- Scammell, William, "Everyday Experiments," Times Literary Supplement (5–11 May 1989): 495. (Scammell offers a positive assessment of Simpson's Collected Poems.)
- Stevenson, Anne, "Testing Ideas on His Pulse," New York Times Book Review (7 May 1989): 28. (Stevenson praises Selected Prose for its lucid narrative and competent commentary on Simpson's life.)
- Wojahn, David, "I Might Live Here Myself: On Louis Simpson," in On Louis Simpson: Depths Beyond Happiness, edited by Hank Lazer, pp. 320–33. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. (In this essay, originally published in 1984, Wojahn examines Simpson's preoccupation with ordinary American life, his disdain for suburbia, and the development of his distinct poetic voice and mature narrative approach.)
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