Recent Courses
Seminars on Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and John Keats. “Poems, Poets Poetry,” “Six Postwar Poets,” “Five Modern Poets,” “Describing the Lyric.”

Research Interests
English and American Lyric Poetry

Books in Progress
“Our Secret Discipline”: Yeats’s Styles and Forms
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, Ammons

Previous Books
Yeats's Vision and the Later Plays. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard UP, 1963.
On Extended Wings: The Longer Poems of Wallace Stevens. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1969.
Ed., with Reuben Brower and John Hollander. I. A. Richards: Essays in His Honor. New York: Oxford UP, 1973.
The Poetry of George Herbert. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1975.
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1980.
The Odes of John Keats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. Rpt.
Harvard UP, 1986.
Ed., Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1985. Also issued as
Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry. London: Faber & Faber, 1985.
Co-Editor. Harper Anthology of American Literature. New York: Harper and Row, 1986.
Ed., with Introduction and including an essay on Wallace Stevens, Voices and Visions:
American Poets. New York: Random House, 1988.
The Music of What Happens: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1988.
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995.
The Given and the Made: Lowell, Berryman, Dove, Graham. The T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. London
and New York: Faber and Faber, 1995; Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1995.
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham. The Richard Ellmann Memorial Lectures. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard UP, 1995.
Poems, Poets, Poetry (a textbook and anthology). Boston, MA: Bedford Books, 1996 and 2002.
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1997.
Seamus Heaney. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1998, and London: Harper Collins, 1998.
Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. The James Murray Brown Lectures. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard UP, 2003.
Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats. The Clark Lectures. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.
Invisible Listeners. Farnum Lectures. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, Forthcoming 2005.

Editor, Limited Editions of Yeats, Stevens, Ginsberg, Milosz, Shakespeare, Melville, Heaney, at Arion Press, San Francisco.

Last Updated: August 17, 2007