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  • Alexander, George L. "A Psychoanalytic Observation on the Scopophilic Imagery in James Dickey's Deliverance." James Dickey Newsletter, 11, no. 1 (fall 1994): 2-11. (Traces the scopophilic theme in Dickey's novel.)
  • Baughman, Ronald, ed. The Voiced Connections of James Dickey: Interviews and Conversations. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1989, 281 p. (Collection of interviews with and essays on Dickey.)
  • Baughman, Ronald. Understanding James Dickey. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1985, 174 p. (Full-length critical study of Dickey's poetry, novels, and literary criticism.)
  • Berry, David C. "Harmony with the Dead: James Dickey's Descent into the Underworld." Southern Quarterly 12, no. 3 (April 1974): 233-44. (Probes Dickey's theme of the connection between the living and the dead and the possibilities it offers for renewal.)
  • Bowers, Neal. James Dickey: The Poet as Pitchman. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985, 86 p. (Investigates Dickey's penchant for publicity and its impact on his work.)
  • Calhoun, Richard J. James Dickey: The Expansive Imagination, A Collection of Critical Essays. Deland, Fla.: Everett/Edwards, 1973, 231 p. (Collection of interviews and critical essays.)
  • Calhoun, Richard J., and Robert W. Hill. James Dickey. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1983, 156 p. (Biographical and critical study.)
  • Cassity, Turner. Reviews of The Strength of Fields and The Zodiac, by James Dickey. Parnassus 8, no. 2 (summer 1980): 177-93. (Derisive reviews of The Strength of Fields and The Zodiac that generally deprecate the former, while calling the latter Dickey's magnum opus.)
  • Corrington, John William. "James Dickey's Poems 1957-1967: A Personal Appraisal." Georgia Review 22, no. 1 (spring 1968): 12-23. (Review of Dickey's Poems 1957-1967 that sees the work as a record of “the growth of the poet's mind.” Includes readings of the poems “Adultery” and “A Folk-Singer of the Thirties” as representative works.)
  • Davis, Will. "James Dickey: An Interview." In James Dickey: Splintered Sunlight: Interviews, Essays, and Bibliography, edited by Patricia De La Fuente, pp. 6-23. Edinburg, TX: Pan American University School of Humanities, 1979. (Dickey explains his views on poetic form and expression, comments on numerous American writers, and makes observations on the necessity and future of poetry.)
  • Davison, Peter. "The Great Grassy World from Both Sides: The Poetry of Robert Lowell and James Dickey." In James Dickey: The Expansive Imagination, edited by Richard J. Calhoun, pp. 35-51. DeLand, FL: Everett/Edwards, Inc., 1973. (Comments on the searching quality of Dickey's verse, its thematic complexity, the poet's skilled use of narrative, and his “explosive” poetic development between the years 1957 and 1967.)
  • Friedman, Peggy, and Betty Bedell. "A Conversation with James Dickey." Kalliope 1 (February 1979): 30-35. (Dickey discusses his thoughts on narrative, poetic revision, and contemporary American poetry.)
  • Glancy, Eileen. "James Dickey, The Critic as Poet: An Annotated Bibliography With An Introductory Essay." Whitston Publishing Company, 1971, 107 p. (Compilation of primary and secondary sources until 1971, preceded by a summary introduction to Dickey's literary career.)
  • Gleason, Judith. "That Lingering Child of Air." Parnassus 8 (1980): 63-82. (Derogatory review of Tucky the Hunter.)
  • Hart, Henry. James Dickey: The World as a Lie. New York: Picador, 2000, 811 p. (Biographical study of Dickey.)
  • Howard, Richard. "James Dickey." Alone with America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States since 1950, pp. 75-98. New York: Atheneum, 1969. (Traces Dickey's poetic development.)
  • Kellman, Steven G. "All the World's a Movie Set: Dickey's Deliverance." South Carolina Review 26, No. 2 (spring 1994): 155-61. (Asserts that “many elements in Dickey's novel facilitated translation from the medium of prose fiction to that of cinema.”)
  • Kirschten, Robert. James Dickey and the Gentle Ecstasy of Earth: A Reading of the Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988, 218 p. (Analyzes stylistic and thematic elements of Dickey's poetry.)
  • Korges, James. Review of Drowning With Others, by James Dickey. Minnesota Review 3, no. 4 (summer 1963): 473-491. (Includes a highly laudatory assessment of Drowning With Others, which only takes exception to Dickey's seemingly arbitrary use of poetic form in his second collection of verse.)
  • Kuehl, John R., and Linda K. Kuehl. "‘The Principle of Uncertainty’ in Deliverance." South Carolina Press 26, no. 2 (spring 1994): 162-72. (Surveys critical perspectives on Dickey's novel.)
  • Lensing, George S. "The Neo-Romanticism of James Dickey." South Carolina Review 10, no. 2 (April 1978): 20-32. (Interprets Dickey's writing in terms of an emergent tradition of American neo-romanticism, while concentrating on his “poetry of the unrepressed ego” and use of “audacious metaphor.”)
  • Moorhead, Michael. "Dickey's Deliverance." Explicator 51, no. 4 (summer 1993): 247-48. (Examines the conclusion of Dickey's novel.)
  • Morris, Harry. Review of Poems 1957-1967, by James Dickey. Sewanee Review 77, no. 2 (spring 1969): 318-25. (Criticizes Dickey's logic, prosody, lack of precision, and limited poetic development in his Poems 1957-1967.)
  • Plumly, Stanley. Review of The Zodiac, by James Dickey. American Poetry Review 6, no. 4 (July-August 1977): 42-43. (Calls Dickey's twelve-part poem The Zodiac “a mistake in conception and execution.”)
  • Silverstein, Norman. "James Dickey's Muscular Eschatology." Salmagundi, nos. 22-23 (spring-summer 1973): 258-68. (Reverential sketch of Dickey's life, poetic vision, and technique.)
  • Spears, Monroe K. "James Dickey's Poetry." Southern Review 30, no. 4 (autumn 1994): 751-60. (Explores the defining characteristics of Dickey's poetry.)
  • Suarez, Ernest. "James Dickey's Literary Reputation: Romanticism and Hedonism in To the White Sea and Deliverance." South Carolina Review 26, no. 2 (spring 1994): 141-54. (Discusses parallels between Dickey's To the White Sea and Deliverance.)
  • Suarez, Ernest. James Dickey and the Politics of Canon: Assessing the Savage Ideal. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993, 170 p. (Investigates Dickey's development as writer and celebrity within the context of contemporary poetry and late twentieth-century American culture.)
  • Van Ness, Gordon. Outbelieving Existence: The Measured Motion of James Dickey. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House, 1992, 139 p. (Explores critical reaction to Dickey's work and reputation.)
  • Wright, James. Review of Into the Stone and Other Poems, by James Dickey. Poetry 99, no. 3 (December 1961): 178-83. (Praises the clear and evocative poems of Dickey's Into the Stone and Other Poems, commenting briefly on a representative piece, “The Performance.”)

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