Criticism

Aldan, Daisy. Review of Human Wishes. World Literature Today (Spring 1990): 313.

Examines the four parts of the volume in order, praising Hass's imagery and prose poems in particular.

Berger, Charles. "Dan Pagis and Robert Hass." Raritan 10, No. 1 (Summer 1990): 126-38.

Explores Human Wishes, focusing on Hass's lyrical pieces and prose poems.

Florby, Gunilla. "Holding Out Against Loss and Jacques Lacan: Some Reflections on Robert Hass's Sensuous Line." Studia Neophilologica 63, No. 2 (1991): 189-95.

Discusses Hass's poems as adumbrations of Saussurean and Lacanian theories of language.

Lea, Sydney. "A Matter of Conscience." The Nation (19 May 1979): 574-75.

Reviews Praise, finding Hass's distinctive voice as the vehicle that successfully balances the volume's aesthetic and moral conflicts.

Selman, Robyn. Review of Human Wishes. Village Voice Literary Supplement (December 1989): 5-6.

Delivers unqualified approval of Hass's fourth collection of verse.

Additional coverage of Hass's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 111; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 30; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 18, 39; and Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 105.