In the following excerpt, Arce de Vasquez offers a broad survey of Mistral's poetry ranging from the beginning to the end of her career, and an in-depth explication of selected works.

In the following essay, Rosenbaum examines the appearance and development of such characteristic themes as passion, violence, asceticism, materialism, and pan-Americanism in Mistral's poetry.

In the following essay, Bates retraces the poetic journey through Chile Mistral undertook in her unfinished Poema de Chile.

In the following essay, Virgilio advances a metaphorical understanding of Mistral's use of the conventional image of women and of women's roles in her poetry.

In the following essay, Ryan-Kobler argues that Mistral's poetry contradicts the accepted, simplified image of Mistral as the saintly mother of Latin America.

In the following essay, Maier analyzes two of Mistral's poems, both of which dwell on twilight images, for modernist and avant-garde elements; Maier calls her a “poet of transition.”

In the following essay, Arce de Vasquez offers an explication of Mistral's “Nocturne”, arguing that the poem traces a course from the bitterness of betrayed passion to resignation and an ascetic focus on the predominance of death.

In the following essay, Finlayson introduces Mistral to North American readers as a poet of sadness, an advocate for the downtrodden, and as a Christian evangelist of Democracy.

In the following essay, Dewberry discusses the imagery and associations surrounding sleep in Mistral's lullabies.

In the following introduction to his translations of her poetry, Hughes pays tribute to Mistral as a poet and as a person.

Gullberg addresses a tribute to Mistral in the following citation from the Swedish Academy, awarding her the Nobel Prize for Literature.