Works
- A Crackling of Thorns (1958) poems
- The Untuning of the Sky (1961)
- The Wind and the Rain (1961) editor with Harold Bloom
- Movie-Going (1962) poems
- Philomel (1964) "cantata text" for the composition of the same name by American composer Milton Babbitt
- Visions from the Ramble (1965) poems
- Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1967) with Anthony Hecht
- Types of Shape (1969, 1991) poems
- Images of Voice (1970) criticism
- The Night Mirror (1971) poems
- Town and Country Matters (1972) poems
- The Head of the Bed (1974) poems
- Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) poems
- Vision and Resonance (1975) criticism
- Reflections on Espionage (1976) poems
- Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems (1978)
- Blue Wine (1979) poems
- The Figure of Echo (1981) criticism
- Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (1981, 1989, 2001) criticism
- Powers of Thirteen (1983) poems
- In Time and Place (1986) poems
- Harp Lake (1988) poems
- Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language (1988)
- Some Fugitives Take Cover (1988) poems
- Tesserae and Other Poems (1993)
- Selected Poetry (1993)
- Animal Poems (1994) poems
- The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art (1995) criticism
- The Work of Poetry (1997) criticism
- Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) poems
- Picture Window (2003)
- The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, editor
- Poems Bewitched and Haunted (2005) editor
- A Draft of Light (2008), poems
- Sonnets. From Dante to the present, Everyman's library pocket poets.
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