Works
Poetry
- Mutatis Mutandis: 27 Invoices (1985)
- One Long Poem (1982)
- The Intussusception of Miss Mary America (1976)
- Legion: Civic Choruses (1973)
- Treasury Holiday : Thirty-Four Fits for the Opening of the Fiscal Year (1970)
Edited Reference Works
- A Handbook to Literature (5th - 12th Editions) (1984 - 2011)
- Classic Writings on Poetry (2005)
- The Classic Hundred: All-Time Favorite Poems (2nd Edition) (1998)
- The Top 500 Poems (1992)
- The Oxford book of American light verse (1979)
Literary Criticism
- Time in Ezra Pound's Work (1977)
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“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
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—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)