Stanley Edgar Hyman was a staff writer for the New Yorker and a book critic of the New Leader as well as a member of the literature faculty at Bennington College. Among his books are The Tangled Bank, Poetry and Criticism, and The Armed Vision.

Stanley Edgar Hyman was a staff writer for the New Yorker and a book critic of the New Leader as well as a member of the literature faculty at Bennington College. Among his books are The Tangled Bank, Poetry and Criticism, and The Armed Vision.