Two years later Stanley Edgar Hyman roundly voiced the wish for an ideal integration of all modern critical methods into one super method (Hyman, 1955) [p. 388]. Near the end of the next decade, in 1968, a pamphlet appeared under the sponsorship of the NCTE Committee on Research, Alan G. Purves's Elements of Writing about a Literary Work: A Study of Response to Literature. This was a schema which organized statements respondents made about literary works into four main categories: