Reference Material on A.R. Ammons

  • Bartlett, Brian. “Speech and Address in the Poetry of A. R. Ammons.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Montreal, 1990.
  • Bloom, Harold, ed. A. R. Ammons. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.
  • Clark, Miriam M. “‘Not at All Surprised by Science’: Science and Technology in Ammons, Nemerov, and Merrill.” Ph.D dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986.
  • Cliff, Joanne Elizabeth. “The Romantic Naturalist Strain in the Poetry of A. R. Ammons.” Ph.D. dissertation, Queens University of Kingston (Canada), 1984.
  • DeRosa, Janet E. “Occurrences of Promise and Terror: The Poetry of A. R. Ammons.” Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1978.
  • Evans, J. Dennis. “The Book of Laws Founded against Itself: The Poetry of A. R. Ammons, 1951-1976.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1978.
  • Evans, Murphy. “A Reading of A. R. Ammons’ Ommateum, with Doxology.” Honors Essay, Curriculum in American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1984.
  • Fried, Philip H. “‘A Place You Can Live’: An Interview with A. R. Ammons.” Manhattan Review 1, no. 2 (Fall 1980): 1-28.
  • _____. “Three Essays on the Poetry of A. R. Ammons.” Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1978.
  • Hanse, Bertha A. “The Spiritual Eye of A. R. Ammons: Mystical Elements in Sphere: The Form of A Motion.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Arkansas, 1995.
  • Holder, Alan. A. R. Ammons. Boston, Mass.: Twayne Publishers, 1979.
  • Johnston, Sara Andrews. “Life’s a Beach: The Shore-Lyric from Arnold to Ammons.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1991.
  • Kirschten, Robert, ed. Critical Essays on A. R. Ammons. New York: G. K. Hall, 1997.
  • McFee, Michael A. “Form in the Long Poems of A. R. Ammons.” M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978.
  • Mills, Elizabeth M. “Wording the Unspeakable: Emily: Dickinson and A. R. Ammons.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1985.
  • Schneider, Steven Paul. A. R. Ammons and the Poetics of Widening Scope. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1994. 246 pp.
  • _____, ed. Complexities of Motion: New Essays on A. R. Ammons’ Long Poems. Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999.
  • Scigaj, Leonard M. Sustainable Poetry: Four American Ecopoets. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.
  • Wilson, Matthew Thomas. “A. R. Ammons, Theodore Roethke, and American Nature Poetry.” Ph.D. dissertation, Rutgers University, 1978.
  • Wolfe, Cary. “The Poetics of Nature: A. R. Ammons’ Later Long Poems.” M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1986.
  • Wright, Stuart T., comp. “A. R. Ammons: A Bibliographical Checklist.” American Book Collector 1, no. 3 (May/June 1980): 32-37.
  • _____. A. R. Ammons: A Bibliography, 1954-1979. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest University, 1980.

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