* Hateful Contraries (1965)
* Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957)
* Philosophies of Literature (1963)
* The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (1954)
* Literary Criticism: An Introduction (1957)
* Portraits of Christ in Modern Literature (1964)
* The Author as a Person (1976)
* Day of the Leopards (1976)
* The Literary Text: An Examination of Critical Methods (1976)
* The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (1976)
* The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (1981)
* Studies in the Literary Imagination: Essays Presented to Cleanth Brooks (1981)