A selective list of literary criticism for the African American poet, Sterling Brown, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web sites
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Baker, Houston A., Jr. Sterling's Magic - Sterling Brown Black Issues Book Review, May, 2001
Campbell, D.K. A Son's Return: Selected Essays of Sterling A. Brown, in MELUS, Winter, 1998
Camper, J. "Sterling Brown: maker of community in academia," African American Review, Fall, 1997
Gabbin, Joanne V. "Sterling Brown's poetic voice: a living legacy," African American Review, Fall, 1997
Manson, Michael Tomasek. Sterling Brown and the 'vestiges' of the blues: the role of race in English verse structure, in MELUS, Spring, 1996
Palmer, Ronald D. Memories of Sterling Brown in African American Review, Fall, 1997
Sanders, Mark A. Sterling A. Brown and the Afro-modern moment African American Review, Fall, 1997
Simmons, Hortense E. Sterling A. Brown's "Literary Chronicles." African American Review, Fall, 1997
Skinner, Beverly Lanier. "Sterling Brown: an ethnographic perspective," African American Review, Fall, 1997
Smethurst, James. "Southern Road and the "New Negro Renaissance." On Sterling Brown’s distinction between the term "Harlem Renaissance," which he rejected, and the term "New Negro Renaissance," a literary movement with which he identified. Brief excerpt from The New Red Negro: The Literary Left and African American Poetry, 1930-1946
Stepto, Robert. "When De Saint Go Ma'Chin' Home": Sterling Brown's Blueprint for a New Negro Poetry. In Callaloo 21.4 (1998) 940-949
Thomas, Lorenzo. "Authenticity and elevation: Sterling Brown's theory of the blues," African American Review, Fall, 1997
Tidwell, John Edgar. An introduction to Sterling Brown from the Literary Encyclopedia, 04 July 2002
Tidwell, John Edgar. "Two writers sharing: Sterling A. Brown, Robert Frost, and 'In Dives' Dive.'" In connection with Brown's use of Robert Frost, the meaning of "influence" as both convergence and divergence between Frost's and Brown's vision of American poetic tradition. African American Review, Fall, 1997
Traylor, Eleanor W.; R. Victoria Arana; John M. Reilly "Runnin' space": the continuing legacy of Sterling Allen Brown, in African American Review, Fall, 1997
An introduction to Sterling Brown, with sections on Brown's Life and Career; On "Memphis Blues"; On the Slim Greer Sequence; On "Rent Day Blues"; On "Old Lem"; On "Sharecroppers"; On "Southern Cop"; About Sharecropping; From Preface to Southern Road; Southern Road and the "New Negro Renaissance"--by J. Smethurst; Illustrations to Brown's Southern Road; "Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs"--An Essay by Sterling Brown; "Stray Notes on Jazz"--An Essay by Sterling Brown; A Photo Dossier on Sharecropping; About Lynching, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
Issues and strategies for teachers of Sterling Brown, Contributing Editor: John Edgar Tidwell, from Heath.
Sterling Brown Articles Indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, an extensive list of articles that provides full details and is actively maintained, from the Randolph Fisher newsletter
A brief biography of Sterling Brown from the Howard University Libraries.
A very brief introduction to Sterling Brown from the Academy of American Poets
An extensive secondary bibliography for Sterling Brown from the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, briefly annotated
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