Abernathy, Robert. "A Vowel Fugue in Blok." International Journal of Slavic Linguistics and Poetics VII (1963): 88-107.

A close analysis of the occurrence of stressed-vowel patterns in the third part of Blok's poem "Na pole Kulikovom."

Bowlt, John E. "Aleksandr Blok: The Poem 'The Unknown Lady'." Texas Studies in Literature and Language XVII (1975): 349-56.

Studies how Blok first creates and then destroys tension between the material and spiritual worlds in his poem "The Unknown Lady."

Byrns, Richard H. "The Artistic Worlds of Vrubel and Blok." Slavic and East European Journal 23, No. 1 (Spring 1979): 38-50.

Points out affinities between Blok's poetry and the paintings of Mixail Vrubel, focusing on both artists' representation of the symbolic figures of the "Demon" and the "Feminine Idealized."

Cooper, Nancy L. "Images of Hope and Despair in the Last Part of Blok's 'Gorod'." Slavic and East European Journal 35, No. 4 (Winter 1991): 503-17.

Studies the imagery and symbolism of the poems comprising the third part of Blok's "Gorod" cycle.

Elagin, Ivan. "Poe in Blok's Literary Heritage." The Russian Review 32, No. 4 (October 1973): 403-12.

Notes the influence of Edgar Allan Poe's works and the symbolist aesthetic on Blok's poetry.

Hughes, Robert P. "Nothung, the Cassia Flower, and a 'Spirit of Music' in the Poetry of Aleksandr Blok." California Slavic Studies VI (1971): 49-60.

Explores the role of "actual music" in Blok's life and poetry, focusing on his interest in the operas of Richard Wagner and Georges Bizet.

Kaun, Alexander. "1917 and After." In Soviet Poets and Poetry, pp. 28-34. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1943.

Includes Blok in a discussion of the Russian intelligentsia's reaction to the Bolshevik Revolution, remarking of The Twelve, "With this one glorious exception, the revolution has not been adequately recorded as yet in a work of art."

Lednicki, Waclaw. "Blok's 'Polish Poem'." In Russia, Poland and the West: Essays in Literary and Cultural History, pp. 349-99. New York: Roy Publishers, 1954.

Discusses the Polish motifs in Blok's Vozmezdie and speculates on Blok's sources of inspiration and influences.

Masing-Deli, Irene. "Limitation and Pain in Brjusov's and Blok's Poetry." Slavic and East European Journal 19, No. 4 (Winter 1975): 388-402.

Compares Blok's treatment of the themes of limitation and pain with that of another Russian symbolist, Valery Brjusov, arguing that "Brjusov's system represent[s] an aesthetic and psychological preference for limitation, where pain functions as a stimulant, whereas Blok's system represents a metaphysical protest against limitation, with pain functioning as a (last) link with reality."

Maslenikov, Oleg A. "Andrey Biely and Alexander Blok." In The Frenzied Poets: The Russian Symbolists, pp. 146-96. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1952.

Chronicles the tumultuous friendship of Blok and Biely and its influence on the careers of both poets.

McCarey, Peter, and Mariarosario Cardines. "The Harrowing of Hell and Resurrection: Dante's Inferno and Blok's Dvenadsat'." The Slavonic and East European Review 63, No. 3 (July 1985): 337-48.

Explores the relationship between Dante's Inferno and The Twelve, with the primary aim of uncovering the meaning of Christ's appearance at the head of the Red Guardsmen in Blok's poem.

Schapiro, Leonard. "The Last Years of Alexander Blok." In Russian Studies, edited by Ellen Dahrendorf, pp. 359-75. London: Collins Harvill, 1986.

Seeks to determine the reasons for Blok's slight literary output after the publication of The Twelve, focusing on public reaction to the poem as well as Blok's own feelings toward the work.

Struve, Gleb. "The Transition from Russian to Soviet Literature." In Literature and Revolution in Soviet Russia, 1917-62, edited by Max Hayward and Leopold Labedz, pp. 1-27. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.

A historical discussion of the distinction between "Russian" and "Soviet" literature in which Struve briefly discusses The Twelve and Blok's changing attitudes toward the Bolshevik Revolution.

Vogel, Lucy E. "Blok in the Land of Dante." The Russian Review 26, No. 1 (January-October 1967): 251-63.

Examines some of the poems from Blok's cycle of "Italian Verses," relating how Blok viewed his 1909 trip to Italy as a spiritual descent into Dante's Inferno.

——. Aleksandr Blok: The Journey to Italy, with English Translations of the Poems and Prose Sketches on Italy. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1973, 275 p.

A detailed record of Blok's trip to Italy in 1909, the purpose of which, in Vogel's words, is "to study Blok's immediate impressions of the Italian scene in relation to his art, and to interpret the profound impact of this journey on his thought."

Vroon, Ronald. "Cycle and History: The Case of Aleksandr Blok's 'Rodina'." Slavic and East European Journal 28, No. 3 (Fall 1984): 340-57.

Examines the relationship between the theme of eternal return in "Rodina" and the structure of the poetic cycle.

Weidlé, Wladimir. "The Poison of Modernism." In Russian Modernism: Culture and the Avant-Garde, 1900-1930, edited by George Gibian and H. W. Tjalsma, pp. 18-30. Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1976.

Traces Blok's disdain for Russian modernism to his aversion to the doctrine of "art for art's sake."

Woodward, James B. "Rhythmic Modulations in the dol'nik Trimeter of Blok." The Slavic and East European Journal XII, No. 3 (Fall 1968): 297-310.

An analysis of the expressive function of meter and accent in Blok's poetry.

Additional coverage of Blok's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Gale Research: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 104, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 5.