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Crawford, Fred D. "Poetry Of World War I." English Literature In Transition, 1880-1920 31.3 (1988): 358-361.

Devine, Kathleen. "Silkin: Sassoon and the Imagery of Loss." Focus on Robert Graves and His Contemporaries 2.2 (1994 Spring): 35-38.

Doerr, Joseph Francis. "The Making of the English Working-Class Poet: Historical Perspectives of Class, Art, and Culture in the Shaping of Five Poets from Leeds: Geoffrey Hill, Jon Silkin, Tony Harrison, Ken Smith, and Jeffrey Wainwright." Dissertation, Leeds University, 2003.

Glover, Jon. "Jon Silkin." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Lawson, Peter. "Otherness and Affiliation in Anglo-Jewish Poetry." Anglophone Jewish Literature. Ed. Stahler, Axel (ed.) and Wilson, Jonathan (foreword). London: Routledge, 2007. 123-132.

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Meiners, R. K. "Mourning for Our Selves and for Poetry: The Lyric after Auschwitz." The Centennial Review, 35:3 (1991 Fall): 545-90.

Sail, Lawrence. "Conflict and Calm: A Reading of Two of the Flower Poems." Poetry Review, 69 (1980): 10-15.

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