1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner

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…
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist

Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
Paul Fussell

Lectures on Literature
Vladimir Nabokov

ed. by Veronica A. Makowsky, Henry Adams
R.P. Blackmur
