A selective list of online literary criticism for William Stafford, 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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Andrews, Tom (ed.) Publisher's blurb for On William Stafford: The Worth of Local Things (Univ. of Michigan)
Gundy, Jeff. "Peaceable poet: William Stafford's witness," in Christian Century, April 6, 2004
Holden, Jonathan. William Stafford: Genius in Camouflage. Short essay on the poet in Valparasio Poetry Review, no date
Kitchen, Judith. Publisher's blurb for Writing the World: Understanding William Stafford. (Oregon State Univ. Press, 1999)
Metres, Philip. "William Stafford's Down in My Heart: The Poetics of Pacifism and the Limits of Lyric." In Peace & Change Volume 29 Page 1 - January 2004
Roberts, J. Russell. "William Stafford" from "A Literary History of the American West," (Texas Christian Univ. Press, 1998) A detailed overview of Stafford, contains an extensive secondary bibliography (removed)
Shigley, Sally Bishop. "Pax Femina: Women in William Stafford's West" Shigley notes that Stafford's "pacificism as a conscientious objector in World War II, his ambivalence about the effects of technology and industrialism on the earth, his environmentalism, and his tender concern for children combine to form an image that a contemporary cultural feminist would feel very much at home with. Yet Stafford's creation of women characters and voices is troubling." At Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, fall 2000 (removed)
Center for Great Plains Studies provides a brief biography of William Stafford, primary bibliography, and annotated secondary bibliography (Univ. of Nebraska) (moved or removed)
An introduction to William Stafford, About William Stafford; On "At the Bomb Testing Site"; On "Traveling Through the Dark"; An Interview with Stafford; Online Interviews; Bibliography, from the Modern American Poetry Site (Univ. of Illinois)
A very brief introduction to William Stafford from the Academy of American Poets
A brief introduction to William Stafford from publisher Houghton Mifflin
The Friends of William Stafford, an organization devoted to raising awareness of Stafford's work, contains a few active links to brief introductory articles
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