Stephenson, Roger, review of Karl A. Wipf, Elpis: Betrachtungen zum Begriff der Hoffnung in Goethes Spätwerk, in Modern Language Review, 71.4 (1976), pp. 964–65, doi:10.2307/3726022

Stephenson, Roger, ‘On the Widespread Use of an Inappropriate and Restrictive Model of the Literary Aphorism’, in Modern Language Review, 75.1 (1980), pp. 1–17, doi:10.2307/3727888

Stephenson, Roger, review of Martin Swales, The German Bildungsroman from Wieland to Hesse, in Modern Language Review, 75.2 (1980), pp. 452–53, doi:10.2307/3727758

Stephenson, Roger, review of Meredith Lee, Studies in Goethe's Lyric Cycles, in Modern Language Review, 75.4 (1980), pp. 942–43, doi:10.2307/3726680

Stephenson, Roger, ‘Theorizing to Some Purpose: "Deconstruction" in the Light of Goethe and Schiller's Aesthetics: The Case of "Die Wahlverwandtschaften"’, in Modern Language Review, 84.2 (1989), pp. 381–92, doi:10.2307/3731570

Stephenson, Roger, review of Peter Morgan, The Critical Idyll: Traditional Values and the French Revolution in Goethe's 'Hermann und Dorothea', in Modern Language Review, 88.2 (1993), pp. 515–16, doi:10.2307/3733869

Stephenson, Roger, review of Robert E. Norton, The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth Century, in Modern Language Review, 96.3 (2001), pp. 806–09, doi:10.2307/3736764

Stephenson, Roger, review of Nicholas Boyle, Goethe: The Poet and the Age. Vol. II: Revolution and Renunciation (1790-1803), in Modern Language Review, 97.2 (2002), pp. 484–87, doi:10.2307/3736952

Stephenson, Roger, review of Franziska Schössler, Goethes 'Lehr'- und 'Wanderjahre': Eine Kulturgeschichte der Moderne, in Modern Language Review, 100.3 (2005), pp. 863–65, doi:10.2307/3739225

Stephenson, Roger, review of Hans-Gerd von Seggern, Nietzsche und die Weimarer Klassik, in Modern Language Review, 102.2 (2007), pp. 568–69, doi:10.2307/20467379

Stephenson, Roger, review of Frederick Beiser, Schiller as Philosopher: A Re-Examination; Paul Barone, Schiller und die Tradition des Erhabenen, in Modern Language Review, 102.3 (2007), pp. 880–83, doi:10.2307/20467500