Principal Works
Poetry
Terror and Decorum: Poems 1940-1948 1948
Strike through the Mask!: New Lyrical Poems 1950
The First Morning: New Poems 1952
The Persimmon Tree: New Pastoral and Lyrical Poems 1956
The Tree Witch: A Poem and a Play (First of All a Poem) 1961
New and Selected Poems, 1932-1967 1967
Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles of 1967-1987 1987
Tide and Continuities: Last and First Poems 1995-1938 1995
Other Works
Metapolitics: From the Romantics to Hitler (history) 1941; revised edition published as Metapolitics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind, 1961
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt against Revolt (essays) 1949 second edition published as Conservatism Revisited and the New Conservatism: What Went Wrong?, 1962
"My Kind of Poetry" (critical essay) 1950; published in Mid-Century American Poets, ed. John Ciardi
Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals: Babbit, Jr. Versus the Rediscovery of Values (history) 1953
Dream and Responsibility: Four Test Cases of the Tension between Poetry and Society (critical essays) 1953
Conservatism: From John Adams to Churchill (history) 1956
The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans: Reflections on the Distinction between Conserving and Conforming (essays) 1956
Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine (essays) 1957
Conservatism from Burke and John Adams till 1982: A History and an Anthology (history, anthology) 1982
Opcomp: A Modern Medieval Miracle Play (drama) 1993
"Strict Form in Poetry: Would Jacob Wrestle a Flabby Angel?" (critical essay) 1978; published in Critical Inquiry
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