- Gartner, Matthew. "Longfellow's Place: The Poet and Poetry of Craigie House." The New England Quarterly 73, no. 1 (2000): 32-57.
- Haralson, Eric L. "Mars in Petticoats: Longfellow and Sentimental Masculinity." Nineteenth-Century Literature 51, no. 3 (1996): 327-55.
- "The Children's Hour." Encyclopedia of American Literature: The Age of Romanticism and Realism, 1816-1895, Revised Edition, vol. 2. 11/10/16. <www.fofweb.org>.
- Huff, Randall. "The Children's Hour." Facts on File: The Facts on File Companion to American Poetry, vol. 1. 11/8/16. <www.fofweb.org>.