C.R. Hoffmeister penned a handful of literary critiques of writing by Keats, Frost, Hemingway, and others, as an undergraduate student of English at the University of South Carolina. Though not wholly mature and certainly not comprehensive, the essays suggest the author perceives a profound interconnectedness between life, work, and artist. Literary criticism is a conversation with other authors, and their readers, through their works, over time, and through many lenses. C.R. Hoffmeister wrote the essays circa 1998 while living in Columbia, South Carolina.