A selective list of open access articles on American poet Robert Hayden, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites
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Conniff, Brian. "Answering 'The Waste Land': Robert Hayden and the Rise of the African American Poetic Sequence" [T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"]. African American Review, Fall, 1999
Francescato, Simone. Lost Voices of the Trans-Atlantic Journey: Three Texts by John Berryman, Robert Hayden and J.M. Coetzee, in 49th Parallel ejournal
Friedlander, Benjamin. "Robert Hayden's Epic of Community," MELUS, Fall, 1998
Glaysher, Frederick (ed.) A review of The Collected Poems of Robert Hayden. Reviewed by Major Jackson in Philadelphia Citypaper.net, April 4–11, 1996
Goldstein, Laurence, and Robert Chrisman, eds. A review of Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry (U of Michigan P, 2001). Reviewed in African American Review, Spring, 2003 by Fritz Oehlschlaeger
Hirsh, Edward. Poet Edward Hirsh writes about Hayden's poem, "The Whipping," in "Poet's Choice" in the 4/7/02 Washington Post
Murphy, Jim. "Here only the sea is real": Robert Hayden's postmodern passages - Critical Essay, MELUS, Winter, 2002
Pavlic, Edward M. "'Something patterned, wild, and free': Robert Hayden's angles of descent and the democratic unconscious," African American Review, Winter, 2002
Pinsky, Robert. An explication of "Those Winter Sundays" by Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
Pinsky, Robert. Robert Pinsky's brief remarks about the strong feelings readers have about Robert Hayden's "Those Winter Sundays."
Tolleson, Martha. Explication of "Those Winter Sundays" from Professor Tolleson
A good introduction to Robert Hayden, his techniques and subjects, from the Poetry Foundation
An introduction to Robert Hayden plus excerpts of reputable critical discussions of some poems, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
An overview of Robert Hayden's life and poetry from XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia's Introduction to Poetry
A Teachers Guide for Robert Hayden, from Heath Guides
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