[Be sure to have a look at Jim O'Donnell's far more extensive Augustine page]
Life
Augustine, Confessiones, ed. M. Skutella (1934; rpt. Stuttgart 1981)
Possidius, Vita S. Augustini, ed. H. Weiskotten (Princeton and New York, 1919)
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Peter Brown, Augustine of Hippo (London, 1967)
Bibliography
C. Andresen, Bibliographia Augustiniana (Darmstadt, 1973)
+ More recent annual bibliographies in REA. (see below)
Reference Works.
C. Mayer, ed., Augustinus-Lexikon (Basel & Stuttgart, 1986 -) (to 'Deus')
Specimina eines Lexicon Augustinianum = SLA (Vienna, 1987 -)
Journal
Revue des études augustiniennes = REA (1955-)
Sermons.
Text
Orientation
P. Verbraken, Études critiques sur les sermons authentiques de Saint Augustin (Steenbrugis, 1976). Classics Stacks 281.1 IN7
Style & Latinity
General and Sermons
Erich Auerbach, Literary Language and its Public, pp. 25-66 ("Sermo Humilis")
C. Mohrmann, Die altchristliche Sondersprache in den Sermones des Heiligen Augustin (Nijmegen, 1932)
—, "Das Wortspiel in den augustinischen Sermones," in Études I: 323-349
—, "Saint Augustin prédicateur," in Études I: 391-402
Eduard Norden, Antike Kunstprosa II: 615-624
Edith Schuchter, "Zum Predigtstil des hl. Augustinus," Wiener Studien 52 (1934), 115-138
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Other Works
C.I. Balmus, Étude sur le style de Saint Augustin dans les Confessions et la Cité de Dieu (Paris, 1930)
Elsie Marie [sive Sister Wilfrid] Parsons, A Study of the Vocabulary
and Rhetoric of the Letters of Saint Augustine (Washington, 1923)