Publications

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Dickinson: Selected Poems And Commentaries. Dickinson: Selected Poems And Commentaries. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Print.
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Print.
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats And Lyric Form. Our Secret Discipline: Yeats And Lyric Form. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. Print.
Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy In Herbert, Whitman, And Ashbery. Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy In Herbert, Whitman, And Ashbery. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Print.
Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats. Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. Print.
Coming Of Age As A Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. Coming Of Age As A Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Print.
Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney. London: HarperCollins, 1998. Print.
The Art Of Shakespeare’S Sonnets. The Art Of Shakespeare’S Sonnets. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Print.
Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction And Anthology. Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction And Anthology. New York: Bedford Books, 1997. Print.
The Breaking Of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham. The Breaking Of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Print.
The Given And The Made: Strategies Of Poetic Redefinition. The Given And The Made: Strategies Of Poetic Redefinition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. Print.
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry. Soul Says: On Recent Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1995. Print.
The Music Of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics. The Music Of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. Print.
Co-Ed.,. Harper Anthology Of American Literature. New York: Harper and Row, 1986. Print.
Ed.,. Harvard Book Of Contemporary American Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985. Print.
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out Of Desire. Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out Of Desire. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. Print.
The Odes Of John Keats. The Odes Of John Keats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. Print.
Part Of Nature, Part Of Us: Modern American Poets. Part Of Nature, Part Of Us: Modern American Poets. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. Print.
The Poetry Of George Herbert. The Poetry Of George Herbert. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1975. Print.
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems. On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1969. Print.
Yeats’S Vision And The Later Plays. Yeats’S Vision And The Later Plays. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1963. Print.