Critical Response
Many writers can boast that they were misunderstood in their time. Here is a small selection of critical responses to Samuel's work over the years.
Clearly your writing is received differently by different readers. "20" was unable to convince "104" that the first sentence in your reflective essay was anything but awful. Writing Portfolio
Even the filler is terrific. But it's still filler. Essay
A little brilliant, a little mad, and not fully aware of what the job is meant to be. Do other [professors] let you get away with this unruliness because it's clever? Final Exam
While I admired the restraint and the control the author exhibits in his poetry, I found myself not being particularly moved by the poems themselves... I would urge the writer to think more about how he can make his poems be about something that matters to the reader. Poetry Collection