- ^ "National Book Awards – 1964". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-11. (With acceptance speech by Updike and essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.)
- ^ Olster, 2006 p. xi.
- ^ Olster, 2006 p. xi.
- ^ Jack De Bellis, The John Updike Encyclopedia p. 473 (2000)
- ^ Price, p. 132-133: Plot summary
- ^ Miller, 1963 p. 53-54: Composite quote for brevity.
- ^ Miller, 1963 p. 54
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- ^ Burgess, 1963 p. 56
- ^ Luscher, 1993 p. 52: “As in The Centaur, the mythic interpenetrates the actual…”
- ^ Oates, 1975 p. 56-57
- ^ Olster, 2006 p. 61: “Updike has several times affirmed the mythic resonance of day-to-day experience - most conspicuously in The Centaur, which mythologized Peter as Prometheus and Updike’s own father as the centaur Chiron...”
- ^ Olster, 2006 p. 22
- ^ Oates, 1975 p. 56
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