How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “I analyze here my rwo favorite ballads, "Sir Patrick Spence" and "The Unquiet Grave," before turning to the greatest anonymous poem in the lan guage”
Literary Life: A Second Memoir by Larry McMurtry: “His aphoristic The Unquiet Grave is mandarin but his novel The Rock Pool and most of his reviewing, some of it very fine, is not.”
Artful by Ali Smith: “like The Unquiet Grave, a Child Ballad from the early fifteenth century where a lover mourns on the grave of a lost love”