Baldwin, Dean R. H. E. Bates: A Literary Life, Susquehanna University Press, 1987.

A full- length study of Bates's life containing commentary on many of Bates's works, including the collection The Daffodil Sky .

Baldwin, Dean R. "Atmosphere in the Stories of H. E. Bates," in Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 21, 1984, pp. 215-22.

Comments on the manner in which Bates develops atmosphere in his stories and notes that the atmosphere in many of Bates's works clearly distinguishes them from those of his contemporaries.

Fuller, Edmund. "Impressions of Mortality," in The New York Times Book Review, July 15, 1956, p. 5.

A review of the first American edition of the collection The Daffodil Sky, published in 1956, that focuses on Bates's tendency to express ideas in an indirect manner.

Gindin, James. "A. E. Coppard and H. E. Bates," in The English Short Story, 1880-1945, edited by Joseph M. Flora, Twayne, 1985, pp. 113-41.

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