"Charles Lamb." In Harold Bloom, ed., The Critical Perspective, Volume 6: Late Georgian--Romantic, pp. 37823873. The Chelsea House Library of Literary Criticism. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.
See A History of Modern Criticism 1750- 1950. Volume 2: The Romantic Age ( 1955), pp. 278-291.
"Destroying Literary Studies." In Hilton Kramer, ed., The New Criterion Reader: The First Five Years, pp. 29-36. New York: Free Press, 1988.
See "Destroying Literary Studies" ( 1983).
"A History of Modern Criticism." [Letter] TLS [ Times Literary Supplement] (January 15-21, 1988), 4424: 61.
Letter occasioned by Chris Baldick's review of volumes 5 and 6 of the History of Modern Criticism 17501950 in TLS [ Times Literary Supplement] (December 18-24, 1987).
"The Literary Criticism of Hermann Broch." In Stephen D. Dowden, ed., Hermann Broch: Literature, Philosophy, Politics, pp. 61-70. The Yale Broch Symposium 1986. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture, 30. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1988.
"My Early Life." In Mark Zadrozny, ed., Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Volume 7, pp. 205-226. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, 1988.
"The Politics of Interpretation." Review of Hayden White's The Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation. Partisan Review ( 1988), 55(2): 334-337.
"Response." Comparative Literature (Winter 1988), 40(1): 25-28.
Replies to Sarah Lawall's "René Wellek and Modern Literary Criticism," in the same issue, pp. 3-24.
Review of F.R. Leavis' Valuation in Criticism and Other Essays. Modern Language Review (July 1988), 83: 707709.