Collections of criticism by various critics are:
- Diana Hume George Sexton: Selected Criticism (1988);
- J. D. McClatchy
Anne Sexton: The Artist and Her Critics (1978);
- Frances Bixler
Original Essays on the Poetry of Anne Sexton (1988);
- Steven E. Colburn
Anne Sexton: Telling the Tale (1988);
- Linda Wagner-Martin
Critical Essays on Anne Sexton (1989).