At their best, Agee’s poems combine the density and ambiguity of the New Criticism with a supercharged self-scrutiny, inflected by Agee’s boyhood Anglo-Catholicism and the Bible.
--David Yezzi, The drama of promise, The New Criterion, April 2009, review of
James Agee: Selected Poems, edited by Andrew Hudgins
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