All of these essays may be found in Collected Essays, Volume 2:
Literary Criticism from Hippocampus Press. Dates are first publication dates unless
otherwise indicated.
- Metrical Regularity (July 1915)
- The Allowable Rhyme (October 1915)
- The Proposed Authors’ Union (October 1916)
- The Vers Libre Epidemic (January 1917)
- Poesy (July 1918)
- The Despised Pastoral (July 1918)
- The Literature of Rome (November 1918)
- The Simple Spelling Mania (December 1918)
- The Case for Classicism (June 1919)
- Literary Composition (January 1920)
- Editor’s Note to “A Scene for Macbeth” by Samuel Loveman (November 1920)
- Winifred Virginia Jackson: A “Different” Poetess (March 1921)
- The Poetry of Lilian Middleton (written 14 January 1922; unpublished)
- Lord Dunsany and His Work (written 14 December 1922; 1944)
- Rudis Indigestaque Moles (March 1923)
- Introduction [to The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag] (written before March 1923; 1923)
- Ars Gratia Artis (written spring or summer 1923; unpublished)
- In the Editor’s Study (July 1923)
- [Random Notes] (July 1923)
- [Review of Ebony and Crystal by Clark Ashton Smith] (January 1924)
- The Professional Incubus (March 1924)
- The Omnipresent Philistine (May 1924)
- The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jr. (May 1924)
- The Poetry of John Ravenor Bullen (September 1925)
- Supernatural Horror in Literature (written late 1925–summer 1927; 1927)
- Preface [to White Fire by John Ravenor Bullen] (1927)
- Notes on “Alias Peter Marchall”, by A. F. Lorenz (written late 1920s or early 1930s; Spring 1993)
- Foreword [to Thoughts and Pictures by Eugene B. Kuntz] (1932)
- Notes on Verse Technique (written 18 April 1932; 1932)
- Weird Story Plots (written 1932; unpublished)
- [Notes on Weird Fiction] (written 1932–1933; 1938)
- Notes on Writing Weird Fiction (written 1933; May–June 1937)
- Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction (written around July 1934; Winter 1935)
- The Favourite Weird Stories of H. P. Lovecraft (October 1934)
- What Belongs in Verse (Spring 1935)
- [Suggestions for a Reading Guide] (written fall 1936; 1966)
- Supernatural Horror in Literature [for The Science-Fantasy Correspondent] (written 1936; 1974)
