Butscher, Edward. Conrad Aiken: Poet of White Horse Vale,Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Butscher provides biographical context for Aiken's work.

Erskine, Thomas L. "The Two Worlds of 'Silent Snow, Secret Snow,"' in From Fiction to Film: Conrad Aiken's "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," edited by Gerald R. Barrett and Thomas L. Erskine, Encino, Calif.: Dickenson Publishing Co., 1972, pp. 86-91.

Erskine offers his interpretation of "Silent Snow, Secret Snow," particularly the theme of discovery.

Hoffman, Frederick J. Conrad Aiken, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1962.

Hoffmann evaluates Aiken's achievement. For Hoffman, the snow is a symbol of death, an interpretation which assigns the story firmly to the realm of the tragic.