Works
- The Poems of John Milton (1968) editor with Alastair Fowler
- Andrew Marvell: A Critical Anthology (1969) editor
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner by James Hogg (1969) editor
- John Milton (1969)
- Complete Shorter Poems of John Milton (1971), revised 2nd edition (1997) editor
- The Violent Effigy. A Study of Dickens’ Imagination (1973) published in America as Here Comes Dickens. The Imagination of a Novelist. Republished in Faber Finds (2008)
- John Milton, Christian Doctrine (1971) translator
- Thackeray: Prodigal Genius (1977) republished in Faber Finds (2008)
- English Renaissance Studies: Presented To Dame Helen Gardner In Honour Of Her Seventieth Birthday (1979)
- John Donne: Life, Mind and Art (1981) new revised edition (1990) republished in Faber Finds (2008)
- William Golding : The Man and His Books (1986) editor
- Faber Book of Reportage (1987) editor. Published in America as Eyewitness to History, Harvard University Press, (1987)
- Original Copy : Selected Reviews and Journalism 1969-1986 (1987)
- John Donne. The Major Works (1990) editor, Oxford Authors, reprinted with revisions (2000) World’s Classics
- The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939 (1992)
- Short Stories and the Unbearable Bassington by Saki (1994) editor
- Faber Book of Science (1995) editor. Published in America as Eyewitness to Science: Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals, Harvard University Press, (1997)
- Selected Poetry of John Donne (1998) editor
- Faber Book of Utopias (2000) editor
- Pure Pleasure: a Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books (2000)
- George Orwell, Essays (2002) editor
- Vanity Fair by William Thackeray (2002) editor
- What Good are the Arts? (2005)
- William Golding: The Man Who Wrote 'Lord of the Flies' (2009)
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