Bibliography
- Pretending Not to Sleep (1964), poetry pamphlet
- The Visit (1970), poetry book
- A Poetry Chronicle (1973), essays and reviews
- Returning (1976), poetry pamphlet
- Robert Lowell: A Biography (1982)
- In Search of J.D. Salinger (1988), biography and critique
- Fifty Poems (1988), poetry collection
- Writers in Hollywood 1915-1951 (1990)
- Keepers of the Flame (1992), on literary estates
- Gazza Agonistes (1993), on Paul Gascoigne
- Gazza Italia (1994), on Paul Gascoigne
- Walking Possession (1994), essays and reviews
- Oxford Companion to 20th-Century Poetry (1994), as editor
- Steps (1997), poetry
- A Gift Imprisoned: The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold (1998)
- Sixty Poems (1998), poetry collection
- The Trouble with Money (1998), essays
- Against Oblivion: Some Lives of the Twentieth-Century Poets (2002)
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