• Author’s Note 1966. Preface. ‘A Fair and Sweet Town’. Success and Consequences. ‘A Will to Splendour’. The Book of the Grotesque. Conditions of Fame. The Short Stories. In the Lawrencian Orbit. The Downward Curve. Final Wanderings. An American as Artist.

Original reviews of Sherwood Anderson: ‘[He writes] about Anderson’s work with a quiet, patient, discerning, instructed power that makes his own book itself a literary event.’ The New York Times Book Review‘In Irving Howe’s Sherwood Anderson the most illuminating passages are, first, that in which Howe traces the ‘strand of action’ that runs through the tales in Winesburg, Ohio and ties the characters together around the central theme of their ‘lostness’; and second, his brilliant and subtle analysis of the oral narrative method in the triumphantly short stories which came later…’ The Yale Review‘The chapter on Winesburg, Ohio is the most searching and the fairest discuss that the book has ever received.’ Malcolm Cowley, New York Herald Tribune Book Review

• Author’s Note 1966. Preface. ‘A Fair and Sweet Town’. Success and Consequences. ‘A Will to Splendour’. The Book of the Grotesque. Conditions of Fame. The Short Stories. In the Lawrencian Orbit. The Downward Curve. Final Wanderings. An American as Artist.

Original reviews of Sherwood Anderson: ‘[He writes] about Anderson’s work with a quiet, patient, discerning, instructed power that makes his own book itself a literary event.’ The New York Times Book Review‘In Irving Howe’s Sherwood Anderson the most illuminating passages are, first, that in which Howe traces the ‘strand of action’ that runs through the tales in Winesburg, Ohio and ties the characters together around the central theme of their ‘lostness’; and second, his brilliant and subtle analysis of the oral narrative method in the triumphantly short stories which came later…’ The Yale Review‘The chapter on Winesburg, Ohio is the most searching and the fairest discuss that the book has ever received.’ Malcolm Cowley, New York Herald Tribune Book Review

• Author’s Note 1966. Preface. ‘A Fair and Sweet Town’. Success and Consequences. ‘A Will to Splendour’. The Book of the Grotesque. Conditions of Fame. The Short Stories. In the Lawrencian Orbit. The Downward Curve. Final Wanderings. An American as Artist.

Original reviews of Sherwood Anderson: ‘[He writes] about Anderson’s work with a quiet, patient, discerning, instructed power that makes his own book itself a literary event.’ The New York Times Book Review‘In Irving Howe’s Sherwood Anderson the most illuminating passages are, first, that in which Howe traces the ‘strand of action’ that runs through the tales in Winesburg, Ohio and ties the characters together around the central theme of their ‘lostness’; and second, his brilliant and subtle analysis of the oral narrative method in the triumphantly short stories which came later…’ The Yale Review‘The chapter on Winesburg, Ohio is the most searching and the fairest discuss that the book has ever received.’ Malcolm Cowley, New York Herald Tribune Book Review