Selected Secondary Sources (in chronological order)

G. Rostrevor Hamilton, The prose of E.R. Eddison, English Studies, New Series 2 (London: English Association, 1949), pp. 43-53

Lin Carter, Imaginary worlds (New York: Ballantine, 1973), pp. 32-38

Arthur Ransome, The autobiography of Arthur Ransome, ed. R. Hart-Davis (London: Jonathan Cape, 1976), pp. 37-40

L. Sprague de Camp, ‘Superman in a bowler: E.R. Eddison’, Literary swordsmen and sorcerers: the makers of heroic fantasy (Sauk City: Arkham House, 1976), pp. 114-134

Diana Waggoner, The hills of faraway: a guide to fantasy (Atheneum, 1978), entries 354-8

Roger C. Schlobin, The literature of fantasy: a comprehensive, annotated bibliography of modern fantasy fiction (New York: Garland, 1979), pp. 74-76

Marshall B. Tymn, Kenneth J. Zahorski and Robert H. Boyer, Fantasy literature: a core collection and reference guide (New York: R.R. Bowker, 1979), pp. 84-87

Ursula K. Le Guin, ‘From Elfland to Poughkeepsie’, The language of the night: essays on fantasy and science fiction (New York: Putnam, 1979), pp. 83-96

Baird Searles, Beth Meacham and Michael Franklin, A reader’s guide to fantasy (New York: Avon Books, 1982)

Andy Sawyer, ‘Eddison, ER’ in St. James Guide to Fantasy Writers, ed. D. Pringle (New York & London: St. James Press, 1996), pp. 176-8

Douglas E. Winter, ‘Foreword’ to The Worm Ouroboros (New York: Dell paperback, 1991)

Jonathan Preece, ‘The heroic hereafter: explaining Eddison’, Wormwood, 1 (2003), pp. 20-45

Jonathan Preece, ‘E.R. Eddison: transmutation’, Wormwood, 14 (2010), pp. 19-31

Joseph Young, ‘Aphrodite on the Home Front: E.R. Eddison and World War II’, Mythlore, 30.3-4 (2012), pp. 71-88

Joseph Young, ‘The Foundations of E.R. Eddison’s The Worm Ouroboros, Extrapolation, 54.2 (2013), pp. 183-203

Joseph Young, ‘Artemis at Ragnarok: E.R. Eddison’s Queen Antiope, Mythlore, 32.2 (2014), pp. 81-95

Matthew Owen Townend, ‘E.R. Eddison’s Egil’s Saga: Translation and Scholarship in Inter-War Old Northernism’, Saga-Book, 42 (2018), pp. 87-124

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