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  1. "An academic story"
    Louis Simpson
    a poem
    The New Criterion, April 1990, pp. 44-48
  2. "Adam Yankev"
    Louis Simpson
    The New Yorker, October 24, 1970, pp. 56-128
  3. Adventures of the Letter I (1971)
    Louis Simpson
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  4. All Sorts of Things; In Country Houses; In the Twilight
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1996, pp. 43-45
  5. An American in the Thieves' Market
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Summer 1959, p. 322
  6. [+]
    The Ancient Pistol of the Romantics (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    Byron: A Biography, by Leslie A. Marchand
    1. Byron: A Biography by Leslie A. Marchand
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1958, pp. 451-453
  7. Andromeda (a verse play)
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1955, pp. 499-518
  8. The Arrivistes (1949)
    Louis Simpson
    Poems, 1940-1949
    2 Reviews, 1 Readable
  9. The Associate
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1990, pp. 213-222
  10. August; The Believer; Berkeley in the Sixties; Patsy; Her Weekend in the Country; Stair...
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1992, pp. 67-75
  11. The Battle
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Spring 1955, p. 39
  12. Baudelaire in Three Injections
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1965, pp. 48-49
  13. The Best Hour of the Night (1984)
    Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
    Poems
    2 Reviews
  14. The Bird
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, pp. 371-373
  15. The Blue Coast; "He's asleep"; Out on the Island; Country Doctor; When Rosalind Was a C...
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1997, pp. 199-205
  16. The Boarder
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Fall 1958, p. 26
  17. The Boarder
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Spring 1959, pp. 149-170
  18. [+]
    Books (14 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    New Books of Poems
    1. Poems and Fragments by Friedrich Holderlin
    2. Bending the Bow by Robert Duncan
    3. The Dark Birds by Bert Meyers
    4. The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly
    5. The Hard Hours by Anthony Hecht
    6. After Experience by William D. Snodgrass
    7. The Blue Swallows by Howard Nemerov
    8. The Back Country by Gary Snyder
    9. Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen
    10. Pop Poems by Ronald Gross
    11. The Lice by W.S. Merwin
    12. Rescue the Dead by David Ignatow
    13. Body Rags by Galway Kinnell
    14. I Am the Darker Brother by Arnold Adoff
    The Harpers Monthly, August 1968, pp. 73-76
  19. Brooklyn Flats
    Louis Simpson
    The Partisan Review, March 1951, p. 192
  20. [+]
    Canadian Lights, Flashes and Fizzles (3 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Northern Lights, by George E. Nelson
    1. Northern Lights by George E. Nelson
    2. Canadian Short Stories by Robert Weaver
    3. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse by Arthur J.M. Smith
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1961, pp. 150-154
  21. Caviare at the Funeral (1981)
    Louis Simpson
    1 Review
  22. Collected Poems (1989)
    Louis Simpson
    2 Reviews
  23. A Company of Poets (1985)
    Louis Simpson
    1 Review
  24. "The Country House"
    Louis Simpson
    The New Yorker, October 3, 1970, pp. 42-65
  25. Poets on Poetry
    Dead Horses and Live Issues
    Louis Simpson
    The Nation, April 24, 1967, pp. 520-521
  26. Essays
    Disorder and Escape in the Fiction of V.S. Naipaul
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1984, pp. 571-577
  27. A Dream of Governors (1959)
    Louis Simpson
    Poems
    4 Reviews, 2 Readable
  28. Dvonya
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, November 1965, p. 56
  29. Early in the Morning
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Summer 1955, p. 325
  30. At the End of the Open Road (1964)
    Louis Simpson
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  31. [+]
    Fiction Chronicle (5 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
    1. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    2. That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
    3. Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
    4. The Cross of Iron by Willi Heinrich
    5. The Malefactors by Caroline Gordon
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1956, pp. 302-309
  32. The Flaubert Pavilion; The Naturalist and the Volcano
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1985, pp. 57-62
  33. Flight to Cytherea
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Spring 1958, pp. 213-214
  34. Four Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1953, pp. 338-341
  35. Four poems by Desbordes-Valmore
    Louis Simpson
    Translated & with an introduction
    The New Criterion, November 1995, pp. 34-43
  36. Francois Villon's The Legacy and The Testament (2000)
    Louis Simpson and Francois Villon
    2 Reviews
  37. A Friend of the Family
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, April 1969, pp. 70-78
  38. The Further Off from England
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1997, pp. 422-434
  39. Reviews
    [+]
    A Garland for the Muse (5 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    The Exclusions of a Rhyme, by J.V. Cunningham
    1. The Exclusions of a Rhyme by J.V. Cunningham
    2. Cypress and Acacia by Vernon Watkins
    3. With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads by Denise Levertov
    4. Bone Thoughts by George Starbuck
    5. To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1960, pp. 284-292
  40. A Garland of Verses for Marjorie Hope Nicolson
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Summer 1962, p. 405
  41. Good News of Death (a verse pastoral)
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1952, pp. 233-244
  42. Good News of Death and Other Poems (1956)
    Louis Simpson
    2 Reviews
  43. Hot Night on Water Street
    Louis Simpson
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1957, p. 585
  44. [+]
    Hydie and the Communist (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    The Age of Longing, by Arthur Koestler
    1. The Age of Longing by Arthur Koestler
    The American Scholar, Summer 1951, pp. 376-379
  45. [+]
    Important and Unimportant Poems (11 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    West of Your City, by William Stafford
    1. West of Your City by William Stafford
    2. Say Pardon by David Ignatow
    3. The Opening of the Field by Robert Duncan
    4. The Drunk in the Furnace by W.S. Merwin
    5. The Distances by Charles Olson
    6. Poems by Alan Dugan
    7. The Complete Poems of Cavafy by Constantine Cavafy
    8. Poems by George Seferis
    9. Six Poets of Modern Greece by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard
    10. Summoned by Bells by John Betjeman
    11. Halfway by Maxine W. Kumin
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1961, pp. 461-469
  46. In a Time of Peace
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1982, pp. 416-418
  47. [+]
    In the Absence of Yeats (6 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    The Night of the Hammer, by Ned O'Gorman
    1. The Night of the Hammer by Ned O'Gorman
    2. Heart's Needle by W.D. Snodgrass
    3. Oddments, Inklings, Omens, Moments by Alastair Reid
    4. Plays and Poems, 1948-1958 by Elder Olson
    5. Fighting Terms by Thom Gunn
    6. The Sense of Movement by Thom Gunn
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1959, pp. 308-314
  48. In the Room We Share (1990)
    Louis Simpson
    1 Review
  49. Memoir
    In Transit
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1994, pp. 619-637
  50. Indian Country
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Winter 1968, pp. 80-84
  51. [+]
    An Intellectual Odyssey (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    So Long to Learn, by John Masefield
    1. So Long to Learn by John Masefield
    The Saturday Review, March 29, 1952, p. 17
  52. Ishi
    Louis Simpson
    The Atlantic Monthly, June 2005, pp. 92-95
  53. Islanders
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Spring 1952, pp. 172-176
  54. The Iverson Boy
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1994, pp. 27-28
  55. The King My Father's Wreck (1994)
    Louis Simpson
    A Memoir
    1 Review
  56. A Leave of Absence
    Louis Simpson
    The Partisan Review, Fall 1990, pp. 584-591
  57. Letters
    Louis Simpson, Donald Windham, Gore Vidal, and James Atlas, ...
    The New York Review of Books, March 4, 1976, pp. 38-40
  58. "Life, the Interesting Character"
    Louis Simpson
    The New Yorker, May 2, 1970, pp. 36-39
  59. Lines Written Near San Francisco
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Spring 1964, pp. 69-71
  60. Memoir
    Love in the West and Other Memoirs
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1991, pp. 31-54
  61. [+]
    Lowell's Indissoluble Bride (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    Day by Day, by Robert Lowell
    1. Day by Day by Robert Lowell
    The Saturday Review, October 1, 1977, pp. 26-27
  62. The Magic Carpet
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1989, pp. 635-644
  63. Magritte Shaving
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Spring 1981, p. 271
  64. The Making of a Solider USA
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, February 1966, pp. 76-80
  65. [+]
    Making the Impossible Familiar (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    Villa Narcisse: The Garden, the Statues, and the Pool, by Katherine Hoskins
    1. Villa Narcisse: The Garden, the Statues, and the Pool by Katherine Hoskins
    The Saturday Review, December 15, 1956, p. 37
  66. The Man Who Married Magdalene
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Spring 1951, p. 162
  67. The Marriage of Pocahontas
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1963, pp. 237-245
  68. [+]
    Matters of Tact (3 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Racine: Phaedra, by Robert Lowell and Jean Racine
    1. Racine: Phaedra by Robert Lowell and Jean Racine
    2. The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre de Beaumarchais
    3. Imitations by Robert Lowell
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1961, pp. 614-617
  69. Mississippi
    Louis Simpson
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1955, p. 102
  70. Modern Poets of France (1997)
    Louis Simpson
    A Bilingual Anthology
    1 Review
  71. The Morning Light
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1961, p. 540
  72. Nero in Love; Two Ways; A Shearling Coat; Foursome; The Night-Watchman's Daughter; A Wa...
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1998, pp. 164-168
  73. The New Books
    [+]
    New Books of Poems (15 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966, by Robert Penn Warren
    1. Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966 by Robert Penn Warren
    2. The Collected Shorter Poems of Kenneth Rexroth by Kenneth Rexroth
    3. Collected Poems of Hugh MacDiarmid by Hugh Macdiarmid
    4. The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice by Louis MacNeice
    5. Collected Poems, 1966 by Robert Graves
    6. The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke by Theodore Roethke
    7. Poems 1957-1967 by James Dickey
    8. Words by Robert Creeley
    9. All: The Collected Short Poems, 1956-1964 by Louis Zukofsky
    10. Cold Water by Lou Lipsitz
    11. Live or Die by Anne Sexton
    12. The Sorrow Dance by Denise Levertov
    13. Excursions by Katherine Hoskins
    14. The Rescued Year by William Edgar Stafford
    15. Collected Poems by Keith C. Douglas, John Waller, G.S. Fraser, and J.C. Hall, ...
    The Harpers Monthly, August 1967, pp. 89-90
  74. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    Another boring story
    The New Criterion, December 1986, pp. 50-51
  75. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    Sea of grass
    The New Criterion, May 1986, pp. 35-36
  76. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    Trouble
    The New Criterion, June 1987, pp. 34-36
  77. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    The cabin
    The New Criterion, December 1990, pp. 42-43
  78. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    A bayman
    The New Criterion, April 1992, pp. 38-40
  79. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    The choir master's evening party
    The New Criterion, December 1993, p. 41
  80. New poems
    Louis Simpson
    To a Russian poet
    The New Criterion, September 1995, pp. 37-38
  81. New Poetry
    Louis Simpson
    America
    The Saturday Review, May 5, 1956, p. 24
  82. The New Poets of England and America (1957)
    Donald Hall, Robert Pack, and Louis Simpson
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  83. North of Jamaica (1972)
    Louis Simpson
    1 Review
  84. The Old Woman Regretting the Time of Her Youth, or Lament of the Beautiful Helmet Maker...
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1998, pp. 361-364
  85. On a Veranda
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1966, pp. 86-87
  86. Letters
    On "The confinement of free verse"
    Louis Simpson and Brad Leithauser
    The New Criterion, October 1987, pp. 86-94
  87. On the neglect of poetry in the United States
    Louis Simpson
    The New Criterion, September 1991, pp. 81-85
  88. Orpheus in America
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, pp. 374-375
  89. Orpheus in the Underworld
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Winter 1955, pp. 33-35
  90. The Owner of the House (2003)
    Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
  91. [+]
    Passion and Manners (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    The Life and Adventures of La Rochefoucauld, by Morris Bishop
    1. The Life and Adventures of La Rochefoucauld by Morris Bishop
    The American Scholar, Spring 1952, pp. 238-241
  92. "The Pawnshop"
    Louis Simpson
    The New Yorker, July 3, 1978, pp. 28-34
  93. People Live Here (1983)
    Louis Simpson
    Selected Poems 1949-83
    3 Reviews, 1 Readable
  94. Physical Universe; How to Live on Long Island
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1983, pp. 287-290
  95. [+]
    Play of Intellect (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays, by W.H. Auden
    1. The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays by W.H. Auden
    The American Scholar, Spring 1963, pp. 314-315
  96. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    Harlem Heights; John the Baptist; The Ash and the Oak; The True Weather for Women
    The American Scholar, Summer 1951, pp. 304-313
  97. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1961, pp. 200-203
  98. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1962, p. 90
  99. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The rise; White oxen
    The New Criterion, December 1987, pp. 48-49
  100. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    Working out
    The New Criterion, November 1991, p. 54
  101. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The Indian student; The poet's pipe
    The New Criterion, May 1993, pp. 33-35
  102. Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The owner of the house
    The New Criterion, May 2000, pp. 38-39
  103. Poems from Memory
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, December 1967, p. 73
  104. [+]
    Poetry Chronicle (11 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Collected Poems, 1937-1962, by Winfield Townley Scott
    1. Collected Poems, 1937-1962 by Winfield Townley Scott
    2. In Fact by John Ciardi
    3. Waterlily Fire: Poems, 1935-1962 by Muriel Rukeyser
    4. Collected Verse Plays by Richard Eberhart
    5. Tomorrow Morning, Faustus by I.A. Richards
    6. The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Donald Justice and Weldon Kees
    7. Letter to an Imaginary Friend by Thomas McGrath
    8. Long Live Man by Gregory Corso
    9. Silence in the Snowy Fields by Robert Bly
    10. The Drawbridge by Donald F. Drummond
    11. Arrivals and Departures by Charles Gullans
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1963, pp. 130-140
  105. Poetry of the Read-In Campaign
    Louis Simpson
    American Dreams
    The Nation, May 30, 1966, p. 653
  106. [+]
    Poets In Isolation (5 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Great Praises, by Richard Eberhart
    1. Great Praises by Richard Eberhart
    2. The Green Wall by James A. Wright
    3. A Swimmer in the Air by Howard Moss
    4. Letter from a Distant Land by Philip Booth
    5. A Case of Samples by Kingsley Amis
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1957, pp. 458-464
  107. The Poet's Theme
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1988, pp. 93-142
  108. [+]
    Portrait of a Family (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers, by M.R. Lawrence and T.E. Lawrence
    1. The Home Letters of T.E. Lawrence and His Brothers by M.R. Lawrence and T.E. Lawrence
    The American Scholar, Winter 1955, pp. 110-113
  109. The Previous Tenant
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1983, pp. 30-44
  110. Publishing Days; His Funny Valentine
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1986, pp. 81-86
  111. Realists
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1981, pp. 511-518
  112. [+]
    Rehabiliations of an Angel (3 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    The Subtler Language, by Earl R. Wasserman
    1. The Subtler Language by Earl R. Wasserman
    2. Shelley's Mythmaking by Harold Bloom
    3. Shelley's Later Poetry by Milton Thomas Wilson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1959, pp. 635-637
  113. The Return
    Louis Simpson
    The Partisan Review, July 1951, pp. 421-422
  114. A Revolution in Taste (1978)
    Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
    Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell
    5 Reviews, 1 Readable
  115. Riverside Drive (1962)
    Louis Simpson
    2 Reviews
  116. Roll
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, June 1948, p. 524
  117. The Runner
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Spring 1959, pp. 13-36
  118. Sacred Objects
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1965, pp. 102-107
  119. Searching for the Ox (1976)
    Louis Aston Marantz Simpson
    Poems
    2 Reviews
  120. "Searching for the Ox"
    Louis Simpson
    The New Yorker, November 10, 1975, pp. 52-53
  121. Selected Poems (1965)
    Louis Simpson
    4 Reviews, 1 Readable
  122. The Shadow-hunter
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1966, p. 631
  123. Ships Going Into the Blue (1995)
    Louis Simpson
    Essays and Notes on Poetry
    1 Review
  124. Sleeping Beauty
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Summer 1955, p. 324
  125. Memoir
    Soldier's Heart
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1997, pp. 541-552
  126. A Son of the Romanovs
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, November 1967, pp. 104-106
  127. A Story about Chicken Soup
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Autumn 1963, pp. 576-577
  128. Strangers
    Louis Simpson
    The American Scholar, Spring 1973, pp. 251-252
  129. [+]
    A Study in Evil (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    The Devils of Loudon, by Aldous Huxley
    1. The Devils of Loudon by Aldous Huxley
    The American Scholar, Spring 1953, pp. 230-233
  130. Sway
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Fall 1979, pp. 110-113
  131. There You Are (1996)
    Louis Simpson
    1 Review
  132. These Sounds and This Movement
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1995, pp. 533-542
  133. Three on the Tower (1975)
    Louis Simpson
    The Lives and Works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams
    2 Reviews
  134. Three Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Fall 1974, pp. 48-49
  135. Three Poems and a Note
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Fall 1975, pp. 31-35
  136. Two poems
    Louis Simpson
    Leon-Paul Fargue: Translated & with an introduction
    The New Criterion, March 1997, pp. 35-39
  137. Two Poems
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Spring 1958, p. 41
  138. Two poems by Charles Baudelaire
    Louis Simpson
    Translated & with an introduction
    The New Criterion, September 1997, pp. 33-39
  139. "Vandergast and the Girl"
    Louis Simpson
    The New Yorker, December 5, 1970, pp. 62-161
  140. [+]
    The Vertical and Horizontal of Love (2 Reviews)
    Louis Simpson
    Stealing Jesus, by Bruce Bawer
    1. Stealing Jesus by Bruce Bawer
    2. Presences by Paul Moore
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1998, pp. 616-622
  141. Memoir
    The Vigil
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1992, pp. 543-573
  142. Villa Selene (memoir)
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Autumn 1989, pp. 382-408
  143. A Visitor
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1988, pp. 629-630
  144. [+]
    A Vital Human Occupation (Review)
    Louis Simpson
    Poetry and the Age, by Randall Jarrell
    1. Poetry and the Age by Randall Jarrell
    The American Scholar, Winter 1954, pp. 118-119
  145. Walt Whitman at Bear Mountain
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Spring 1960, pp. 26-27
  146. Waterloo, the Story of an Obsession
    Louis Simpson
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1994, pp. 227-234
  147. What Chekhov Said
    Louis Simpson
    The North American Review (New), Spring 1965, p. 52
  148. What's In It for Me
    Louis Simpson
    The Harpers Monthly, October 1965, pp. 173-176
  149. Why Are You Walking?
    Louis Simpson
    The Nation, June 6, 1966, pp. 690-692
  150. Windows
    Louis Simpson
    The Paris Review, Summer 1955, p. 118
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