I cannot agree with some recent critics who have pronounced American poetry dead, but neither does it seem to me to be exactly thriving.

A recent critic has noted that "It is largely unread today except by dedicated literary biographers."

However, recent academic critics have characterized intervention in the Middle East as a means towards engendering democracy a failure.

More recent critics have claimed that increasing government spending has rendered a land tax insufficient to fund government.

Several recent critics have suggested that Dvorak misunderstood American culture.

More recent critics have struck much the same note.

Some recent critics have condemned Riis for appealing to middle-class fears of disruption from below.

However, recent critics have assailed this connection with various degrees of success.

(account that looks at the current state of research and the perception of the 19th century compared with recent critics)

More recent critics have been mostly positive.