Principal Works
Poetry
Beechen Vigil, and Other Poems 1925
Country Comets 1928
Transitional Poem 1929
From Feathers to Iron 1931
The Magnetic Mountain 1933
Collected Poems, 1929-1933 1935
A Time to Dance, and Other Poems 1935
Noah and the Waters 1936
Overtures to Death, and Other Poems 1938
Poems in Wartime 1940
Selected Poems 1940
Word over All 1943
Collected Poems, 1929-1936 1948
Poems 1943-1947 1948
Selected Poems 1951
An Italian Visit 1953
Collected Poems 1954
Pegasus, and Other Poems 1957
The Gate, and Other Poems 1962
On Not Saying Anything 1964
Requiem for the Living 1964
Selected Poems 1967
The Whispering Roots 1970
Other Major Works
A Hope for Poetry (criticism) 1934
A Question of Proof [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1935
Revolution in Writing (pamphlet) 1935
The Friendly Tree (novel) 1936
Starting Point (novel) 1937
Child of Misfortune (novel) 1939
Malice in Wonderland [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1940; also published as Summer Camp Mystery, 1940
The Case of the Abominable Snowman [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1941; also published as Corpse in the Snowman 1941
Minute for Murder [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1947
The Poetic Image (criticism) 1947
The Poet's Task (lectures) 1951
A Tangled Web [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1956; also published as Death and Daisy Bland, 1960
The Buried Day (autobiography) 1960
The Deadly Joker [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1963
The Lyric Impulse (criticism) 1965
A Need for Poetry? (lectures) 1968
The Private Wound [as Nicholas Blake] (novel) 1968
On Translating Poetry (treatise) 1970
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