"The Concept of `Romanticism' in Literary History. I. The Term `Romantic' and Its Derivatives" Comparative Literature (Winter 1949), 1(1): 1-23, 147-172.
"The Concept of `Romanticism' in Literary History. II. The Unity of European Romanticism." Comparative Literature (Spring 1949), 1(2): 147-172.
"The Impasse of Literary History." Review of Howard Mumford Jones's The Theory of American Literature, and Robert E. Spiller's, et al. Literary History of the United States. Kenyon Review (Summer 1949), 11(3): 500-506.
"The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art." In Robert W. Stallman, ed., Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-48, pp. 210-223. New York: Ronald Press, 1949.
See "The Mode of Existence of a Literary Work of Art" ( 1942).
Review of Albert C. Baugh, ed., A Literary History of England. Modern Philology ( 1949), 47: 39-45.
Review of Arthur O. Lovejoy's Essays in the History of Ideas. Germanic Review (December 1949), 24(4): 306-310.
Review of Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake. MLN (January 1949), 64(1): 62-63.
(With Austin Warren.) Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1949. London: J. Cape, 1949.