Bly, Robert - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Atkinson, Michael. “Robert Bly's Sleepers Joining Hands: Shadow and Self.” Iowa Review 7, no. 4 (fall 1976): 135-53.

Provides an analysis on the Jungian archetypes of the shadow and the Self that provide the underlying thematic architecture of Sleepers Joining Hands.

Carruth, Hayden. Review of The Light Around the Body by Robert Bly. Poetry 112, no. 6 (September 1968): 418-27.

Briefly comments on the flatness of the poems in The Light Around the Body, arguing that Bly's observations in the collection may be true, but fail to make for satisfying poetry.

Cavitch, David. “Poet as Victim and Victimizer: Sleepers Joining Hands.” New York Times Book Review (18 February 1973): 2-3.

Sees Bly's Sleepers Joining Hands as an at least partially successful representation of contemporary life derived from one man's investigation of...

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