Books
Singing in Time. J.W.B. Laing, 1972. Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic. University of Massachusetts Press, 1979.
The Love Run. Atlantic- Little, Brown, 1980.
Anthracite Country. Random House, 1982.
Patch Boys, Holt, 1986.
Town Life, Henry Holt & Co., NY, 1988.
An Invitation to Poetry, Prentice- Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1987.
The Last Station, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1990.
Bay of Arrows, Henry Holt & Co., NY 1992.
Benjamin's Crossing: A Novel, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1997.
Some Necessary Angels: Essays on Literature and Politics, Columbia UP, New York, 1998.
House of Days: Poems, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1998
Robert Frost: A Life, Henry Holt & Company, New York, 1999.
Poetry
Poems have appeared in the following periodicals: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Paris Review, The Boston Review, The Yale Review, The Sewanee Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Agni Review, The Devil's Millhopper, Other Poetry, Scottish International Review, Seagate, Tar River Poetry, The New Republic.
Articles & Essay-Reviews
"The Poetry of Anne Stevenson," The Lines Review, December 1974.
"The Poetry of Alastair Reid," The Lines Review, February 1975.
"Ignatius and The Wreck of the Deutschland," Forum for Modern Language Studies, April 1975.
"Theodore Roethke: The Poet as Apprentice," Antaeus, Fall 1976.
"Tradition and Experiment: Charles Causely and Christopher Middleton," Chicago Review, Summer 1977. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
"The Small Valley of Our Living: Five Poets," Poetry, August 1977.
"The Progress of the Soul: Donne and Hopkins in Meditation," Forum for Modern Language Studies, October 1977.
"In the Presence of What Is There: Wendell Berry and Peter Davison," Virginia Quarterly, Autumn 1978.
"Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic," Texas Quarterly, Winter 1978.
"Theodore Roethke: The Poetics of Expression," Ball State University Forum, Winter 1980.
"Seamus Heaney: The Ground Possessed," The Southern Review, Winter 1980. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism.
"The Layers of Stanley Kunitz," The Virginia Quarterly, Spring 1980.
"The New American Poetry," Quest, September 1981.
"Emerson and Frost: The Present Act of Vision," The Sewanee Review, Spring 1981.
"Explaining America: The Poetry of Robert Pinsky," Chicago Review, Winter 1982. Reprinted in Contemporary Lit. Criticism.
"Rule and Energy: The Poetry of Thom Gunn," The MassachusettsReview, Summer 1982.
"A New Generation of Poets," The New Republic, April 14, 1982.
"Blake and Roethke: When Everything Comes to One," Blake and the Moderns, ed. Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt, SUNY Press, 1982.
"William Carlos Williams: The Happy Genius of His Household," Hudson Review, Autumn 1982.
"The Celtic Center: New Irish Poetry," Sewanee Review, Autumn 1982.
"The World of Ann Beattie," Horizon, December 1982.
"Reading the Readers: Barthes and Sontag," The Hudson Review," Summer 1983.
"The Poetry of James Merrill," Horizon, September 1983.
"Joyce Carol Oates: A Profile," Horizon, December 1983.
"Ego Dominus Tuus: Play in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats," Auctor Ludens, ed. G. Guiness, forthcoming NYU Press.
"The Later Poetry of Robert Penn Warren," forthcoming in Kentucky Library Journal.
"Richard Eberhart at Eighty," forthcoming in Yankee Magazine.
"Thomas Mann as Diarist," forthcoming in The Virginia Quarterly.
"Essaying the World," forthcoming in The Hudson Review.
"The Writer's Essay," forthcoming in NER/BLQ.