Works
- Poetry and Translations
- On the Way to the Island Wesleyan University Press, 1960, ISBN 9780819520074
- Strangers: A Book of Poems. University of Chicago Press. 1983. ISBN 9780226244709. http://books.google.com/books?id=pQ7dVhuD-tEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Ferry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4GcVUce7Meqy0QGjh4DIDA&ved=0CEMQ6AEwAw#.
- Gilgamesh: A New Rendering in English Verse Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1992, ISBN 9780374162276
- Dwelling Places: Poems and Translations. University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 9780226244785. http://books.google.com/books?id=cC5hj_QX0lUC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Ferry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4GcVUce7Meqy0QGjh4DIDA&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=David%20Ferry&f=false.
- The Odes of Horace: A Translation. Macmillan. 1998. ISBN 9780374525729. http://books.google.com/books?id=eD8yCs7J7jMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Ferry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9WkVUZ-lD-m40QHakoD4Cg&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBjgK#.
- The Eclogues of Virgil Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000, ISBN 9780374526962
- Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations. University of Chicago Press. 1999. ISBN 9780226244860. http://books.google.com/books?id=WXRFpW6bVzYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Ferry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4GcVUce7Meqy0QGjh4DIDA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#.
- The Georgics of Virgil (2005)
- On This Side of the River: Selected Poems, Between the Lines, 2012, ISBN 9781904130529
- Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations. University of Chicago Press. 2012. ISBN 9780226244884. http://books.google.com/books?id=kPeOleGRgBQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=David+Ferry&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4GcVUce7Meqy0QGjh4DIDA&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#.
- Literary Criticism
- The Limits of Mortality: An Essay on Wordsworth's Major Poems Wesleyan University Press, 1959; Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011, ISBN 9781258051549
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