* Some Versions of Pastoral (1935)
* English Pastoral Poetry (1938)
* The Structure of Complex Words (1951)
* Milton's God (1961)
* Using Biography (1984)
* Essays on Shakespeare (1986)
* Argufying: Selected Essays (1987)
* Poems and Translations (1991)
* The Face of the Sun: Observations on the poetry of D. H. Lawrence (1993)