Bibliography
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POETRY
- The Arrivistes: Poems, 1940-49, Fine Editions, 1949.
- Good News of Death and Other Poems, Scribner (New York, NY), 1955.
- A Dream of Governors, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1959.
- At the End of the Open Road, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1963.
- Selected Poems, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1965.
- Adventures of the Letter I, Harper (New York, NY), 1971.
- Searching for the Ox, Morrow, 1976.
- Armidale, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 1979.
- Out of Season, Deerfield Press, 1979.
- Caviare at the Funeral, Franklin Watts, 1980.
- The Best Hour of the Night, Ticknor & Fields, 1983.
- People Live Here: Selected Poems, 1949-1983, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 1983.
- Collected Poems, Paragon House (New York, NY), 1988.
- Wei Wei and Other Friends, Typographeum (Francestown, NH), 1990.
- In the Room We Share, Paragon House (New York, NY), 1990.
- Jamaica Poems, Press of Appletree Alley (Lewisburg, PA), 1993.
- There You Are: Poems, Story Line (Brownsville, OR), 1995.
- The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 2003.
- Struggling Times, BOA Editions (Rochester, NY), 2009.
- Voices in the Distance: Selected Poems, Bloodaxe Books (Northumberland, UK), 2010.
OTHER
- (Editor, with Donald Hall and Robert Pack) The New Poets of England and America, Meridian, 1957.
- Riverside Drive (novel), Atheneum, 1962.
- James Hogg: A Critical Study, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1962.
- (Contributor) Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes, editors, Five American Poets, Faber (London, England), 1963.
- (Editor) An Introduction to Poetry, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1967, 2nd edition, 1972.
- North of Jamaica (autobiography), Harper (New York, NY), 1972, published as Air with Armed Men, London Magazine Editions, 1972.
- Three on the Tower: The Lives and Works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams (literary criticism), Morrow, 1975.
- A Revolution in Taste: Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell (literary criticism), Macmillan, 1978, published in England as Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1979.
- A Company of Poets (literary criticism), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1981.
- The Character of the Poet (literary criticism), University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), 1986.
- An Introduction to Poetry, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1986.
- Selected Prose, Paragon House (New York, NY), 1988.
- Selected Prose, Paragon House (New York, NY), 1989.
- Ships Going into the Blue: Essays and Notes on Poetry, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 1994.
- The King My Father's Wreck (memoir), Story Line Press, 1994.
- Modern Poets of France: A Bilingual Anthology, Story Line Press (Brownsville, OR), 1997.
- (Translator) The Legacy & The Testament, Story Line Press, 2000.
Contributor of poems, plays, and articles to literary periodicals, including American Poetry Review, Listener, Hudson Review, Paris Review, and Critical Quarterly. Sound recordings include: Louis Simpson Reading His Poems with Comment in New York City, Mar. 19, 1959, 1959; Louis Aston Marantz Simpson and James Wright Reading and Discussing Their Poetry in the Coolidge Auditorium, Dec. 5, 1966, 1966.
