Bibliography
Poetry
- Poems. Banyan Press. 1947.
- Celebration at Dark. Farrar, Straus. 1950.
- The Tin Can and Other Poems. Delacorte Press. 1966.
- His Collected Poems: 1939–1989. C. Scribner's Sons. 1990. ISBN 978-0-684-19167-6.
- The World Below the Window: Poems, 1937–1997. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8018-6783-5.reprint 2002
- Laughing Time. Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. 1955. ISBN 978-0-440-05534-1. reprint 1980
- Boy Blue’s Book of Beasts. Little, Brown. 1957.
- Typewriter Town. Dutton. 1960. ISBN 0-620-11193-3.
- Ho for a Hat!. Joy Street Books. 1964. ISBN 978-0-316-80120-1. rev. ed., 1989
- Laughing Time: Collected Nonsense. Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence. 1980. ISBN 978-0-440-05534-1.
- Around My Room. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2000. ISBN 978-0-374-30406-5.
- Alain Bosquet (July 1995). "Alain Bosquet: Three poems translated by William Jay Smith". The American Poetry Review.
- Poems of a Multimillionaire by Valéry Larbaud (1955)
- Selected Writings of Jules Laforgue. Greenwood Press. 1956. ISBN 978-0-8371-0520-8. reprint 1972
- Two Plays by Charles Bertin : "Christopher Columbus" and "Don Juan" (1970)
- Songs of C
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Non-fiction- The streaks of the tulip: selected criticism. Delacorte Press. 1972.
- Army brat: a memoir. Persea Books. 1980. ISBN 978-0-89255-047-0.
- James S. Holmes, William Jay Smith, ed. (1984). Dutch interior. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-05746-2.
- "The Straw Market". Blackbird (Virginia Commonwealth University). Spring 2006.