Further Reading
- Engles, Tim. "Shapiro's 'The Fly.'" The Explicator 55, No. 1 (Fall 1996): 41-3. (Engles maintains: "Although a casual reader of the poem might consider it little more than a humorously inflated portrayal of the battles between flies and humans, a closer look reveals an intricate example of the steps Shapiro lays out in his conception of poetic vision.")
- Gerber, Philip L., ed. "Trying to Present America: A Conversation with Karl Shapiro." Southern Humanities Review XV, No. 3 (Summer 1981): 193-208. (Discusses Shapiro's role as poet, influences on his work, and his poetic development.)
- O'Connor, William Van. "Karl Shapiro: The Development of a Talent." College English 10, No. 1 (October 1948): 71-77. (Asserts that "in Shapiro one might see a poet who had quickly diagnosed the stylistic excesses and aberrations, consequences of the neuroticism of certain of the 'exiles'; and yet he had recognized the shift in sensibility and attitudes reflected in the new style to be prerequisite to looking at the world through modern eyes.")
- Reino, Joseph. Karl Shapiro. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1981, 194 p. (Full-length critical study of Shapiro's work.)
- Schott, Webster. "Leaves of Glass." The Nation 199, No. 4 (August 1964): 74-6. (Positive assessment of The Bourgeois Poet.)
- Shapiro, Karl. "Creative Glut." Poetry CXXXV, No. 1 (October 1979): 36-50. (Elucidates the poet's views on modern poetry.)
- Slotkin, Richard. "The Contextual Symbol: Karl Shapiro's Image of 'The Jew.'" American Quarterly XVIII, No. 2 (Summer 1966): 220-26. (Explores Shapiro's treatment of Jewish themes and imagery in his poetry.)
- Southworth, James G. "The Poetry of Karl Shapiro." The English Journal LI, No. 3 (March 1962): 159-66. (Contends that too much critical attention has been paid to Shapiro's early work, and urges a reassessment of the poet's entire oeuvre.)
- Spencer, Theodore. "The Craft of Poetry." The Saturday Review of Literature 28, No. 47 (24 November 1945): 8-9, 34-5. (Negative review of An Essay on Rime.)
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