The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter explained

The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter is a book by Katherine Anne Porter published by Delacorte Press in 1970. The anthology includes critical, personal, and biographical essays; three sections of an unfinished work about Cotton Mather; book reviews; letters; and poems.

The Collected Essays, in addition to containing seventeen pieces, includes all thirty-two essays published in The Days Before in 1952. Like The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter and The Never-Ending Wrong, it consists of work Porter had written prior to her long novel Ship of Fools, which was published in 1962.^[1]

In his review of the book in The Georgia Review in 1971, E.C. Bufkin wrote, "As a record of her thinking and feeling, the selections cover a period of almost half a century, and the book is a virtual cornucopia."^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Unrue. Darlene Harbour. Katherine Anne Porter. Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. September 7, 2016.
2. Bufkin. E.C.. Reviewed Works: The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter; Katherine Anne Porter: A Critical Symposium by Lodwick Hartley, George Core. The Georgia Review. 25. 2 (1971). 247–252. 41396787.