Further Reading
- Blouin, Lenora P. May Sarton: A Bibliography. 2nd ed. Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, 2000. 617 pages. (Complete annotated listing of works by and about May Sarton. Primary and secondary bibliography that covers Sarton's early career.)
- Daziel, Bradford Dudley. "May Sarton and the Common Reader." In Sarton Selected: An Anthology of the Journals, Novels, and Poems of May Sarton, edited by Bradford Dudley Daziel, pp. 19-61. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1991. (Argues that Sarton deliberately addressed her works to common readers rather than critics—much in the same way that Virginia Woolf did—so that she could write about the inner lives and experiences of women, which many of her critics have found limiting.)
- DeShazer, Mary K. "‘Toward the Durable Fire’: The Solitary Muse of May Sarton." In That Great Sanity: Critical Essays on May Sarton, edited by Susan Swartzlander and Marilyn R. Mumford, pp. 119-50. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992. (Examines the role of the muse as both poetic inspiration and “demonic shadow” in Sarton's poetry.)
- Drake, William. The First Wave: Women and Poets in America, 1915-1945. New York: Macmillan, 1987. 314 p. (Explores Sarton in the context of her generation of women poets.)
- Evans, Elizabeth. May Sarton Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989. 143 p. (Retrospective on May Sarton's life and literary career, including novels and memoirs. Revision of 1973 edition by Agnes Sibley.)
- Hunting, Constance, ed. May Sarton: Woman and Poet. Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1982. 327 p. (Interviews and essays about Sarton.)
- Ingersoll, Earl G. Conversations with May Sarton. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. 213 p. (Collection of interviews with Sarton.)
- Martin, James. "Questions of Style." Poetry 126, no. 2 (May 1975): 103-15. (Article contends that “May Sarton's poems are so strong in their faith and in their positive response to the human condition that they will likely outlast much of the fashionable, cynical poetry of our era.”)
- Ostriker, Alicia. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. 315 p. (Discusses Sarton's poetry and references to mythology.)
- Peters, Margot. May Sarton: A Biography. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. 474 p. (Biographical account that covers Sarton's life and career.)
- Sarton, May, William Heyen, and Mary Elsie Robertson. "Stopping the Sun: A Conversation with May Sarton." In Conversations with May Sarton, edited by Earl G. Ingersoll, pp. 130-41. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1991. (Sarton discusses the personal experiences and emotions she has drawn upon to produce her poetry.)
- Sibley, Agnes. May Sarton. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972. 160 p. (Biographical and critical study of Sarton.)
- Straw, Deborah. "Belles Lettres Interview." Belles Lettres 6, no. 2 (Winter 1991): 34-38. (Interview in which Sarton discusses her theater experiences, her creative process, and the position of woman writers in America.)
- Swartzlander, Susan and Marilyn R. Mumford, ed. That Great Sanity: Critical Essays on May Sarton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1992. 277 p. (Collection of essays that cover aspects of Sarton's life and work.)
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