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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1953) ISBN 978-0-19-501471-6

The Poetry of Pope: a selection (1954) ISBN 978-0-88295-067-9

Literature and Belief: English Institute essays, 1957. (1957) editor ISBN 978-0-231-02278-1

A Glossary of Literary Terms (1957; 9th ed. 2009) ISBN 978-1-4130-3390-8

English Romantic Poets: modern essays in criticism (1960) ISBN 978-0-19-501946-9

Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962) founding editor, many later editions

The Milk of Paradise: the effect of opium visions on the works of DeQuincey, Crabbe, Francis Thompson, and Coleridge (1970) ISBN 978-0-374-90028-1

Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature (1971) ISBN 978-0-393-00609-4

The Correspondent Breeze: essays on English Romanticism (1984) ISBN 978-0-393-30340-7

Doing Things with Texts: essays in criticism and critical theory (1989) ISBN 978-0-393-02713-6

The Fourth Dimension of a Poem and Other Essays (2012) ISBN 978-0-393-05830-7