A review by Randolph Bourne
in the USA levelled much the same criticisms as William Heinemann
in England.
Cather, Willa. On Writing. Editor Tennant, Stephen, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949.
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H. L. Mencken
, however, thought this book still more competent, more searching and convincing, better...
Literary responses
Willa Cather
Reviews were in the main enthusiastic. Randolph Bourne
wrote in the Dial: It has all the artistic simplicity of material that has been patiently shaped until everything irrelevant has been scraped away.
qtd. in
Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Editor Urgo, Joseph R., Broadview Press, 2003.
H. G. Wells
, reviewing this work, wrote that DR
had probably carried impressionism in fiction to its furthest limit. He considered that her percepts never become concepts, and that her heroine is not a...
