1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

Part of Nature: Modern American Poets

Helen Vendler

Appraises such creators and masters of the modern poetic idiom as T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Marianne Moore, assesses poets whose major works appeared after the mid century, and considers the new generation of poets…

Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars

Paul Fussell

Lectures on Literature

Vladimir Nabokov

ed. by Veronica A. Makowsky, Henry Adams

R.P. Blackmur

Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875

Barbara Novak