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Born in January 16, 1923 / Died in October 20, 2004 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY:

  • A Summoning of Stones, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1954.
  • The Seven Deadly Sins (pamphlet; includes wood engravings by Leonard Baskin), Gehenna Press (Rockport, ME), 1958.
  • Struwwelpeter, a Poem, Gehenna Press (Rockport, ME), 1958.
  • The Hard Hours, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1967.
  • Aesopic (couplets; includes wood engravings by Thomas Bewick), Gehenna Press (Rockport, ME), 1968.
  • Millions of Strange Shadows, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1977.
  • The Venetian Vespers, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1979.
  • A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Haydn, Mandeville (Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England), 1983.
  • The Transparent Man, Knopf (New York, NY), 1990.
  • Collected Earlier Poems (contains The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows, and The Venetian Vespers), Knopf (New York, NY), 1990.  
  • Collected Earlier Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1992.
  • Death Sauntering About, Friends of the Amherst College Library (Amherst, MA), 1994.
  • The Presumptions of Death, Gehenna Press (Rockport, ME), 1995.
  • Flight among the Tombs: Poems, Knopf (New York, NY), 1996.
  • The Gehenna Florilegium, Gehenna Press (Rockport, ME), 1998.
  • The Darkness and the Light, Knopf (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Collected Later Poems, Knopf (New York, NY) 2005.
PROSE:
  • Robert Lowell: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on May 2, 1983, Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1983.
  • The Pathetic Fallacy: A Lecture Delivered at the Library of Congress on May 7, 1984, Library of Congress (Washington, DC), 1985.
  • Obbligati: Essays in Criticism, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1986.
  • The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1993.
  • On the Laws of the Poetic Art, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1995.
  • (With Philip Hoy) Anthony Hecht: In Conversation with Philip Hoy, Between the Lines (London, England), 1999.
  • Melodies Unheard: Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, Maryland), 2003.
OTHER:
  • (Editor, with John Hollander) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, Atheneum (New York, NY), 1967.
  • (Translator, with Helen Bacon) Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1973.
  • (Editor) The Essential Herbert, Ecco (New York, NY), 1987.
  • (Editor, with G. Blakemore Evans) William Shakespeare, The Sonnets, Cambridge University Press (New York, NY), 1996.
Also translator with William Arrowsmith of Sophocles' Oedipus at Colossus. Poems included in New Pocket Anthology of American Verse, edited by Oscar Williams, World Publishing, 1955, Contemporary American Poetry, edited by Donald Hall, Penguin, 1962, Poet's Choice, edited by Paul Engle and Joseph Langland, Dial, 1962, A Controversy of Poets, edited by Paris Leary and Robert Kelly, Doubleday-Anchor, 1965, Poems of Our Moment, edited by John Hollander, Pegasus, 1968, and in other anthologies. Contributor to sound recordings, including The 1987 Consultants' Reunion, A Sixtieth-Anniversary Reading, and Academy of American Poets Fiftieth-Anniversary Celebration. Has done translations from French and German. Contributor to Hudson Review, New York Review of Books, Quarterly Review of Literature, Transatlantic Review, and Voices.