Principal Works
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John Skelton's Poetry (criticism) 1965
Surprised by Sin: The Reader in “Paradise Lost” (criticism) 1967
Seventeenth-Century Prose: Modern Essays in Criticism [editor] (criticism) 1971
Self-Consuming Artifacts: The Experience of Seventeenth-Century Literature (criticism) 1972
The Living Temple: George Herbert and Catechizing (criticism) 1978
Is There a Text in This Class?: The Authority of Interpretive Communities (essays) 1980
Doing What Comes Naturally: Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary and Legal Studies (essays) 1989
There's No Such Thing as Free Speech and It's a Good Thing, Too (essays) 1994
Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change (nonfiction) 1995
The Stanley Fish Reader (essays and criticism) 1999
The Trouble with Principle (nonfiction) 1999