Poetry

Intellectual Things 1930

Passport to the War: A Selection of Poems 1944

Selected Poems, 1928-1958 1958

The Testing-Tree: Poems 1971

The Coat without a Seam: Sixty Poems, 1930-1972 1974

The Terrible Threshold: Selected Poems, 1940-1970 1974

The Lincoln Relics 1978

Poems of Stanley Kunitz: 1928-1978 1979

The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems 1983

Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays (poetry and essays) 1985

Passing Through: The Later Poems, New and Selected 1996

Other Major Works

Living Authors: A Book of Biographies [editor, as Dilly Tante] (biography) 1931

Authors Today and Yesterday: A Companion Volume to "Living Authors" [editor, with Howard Haycraft and Wilbur C. Hadden] (biography) 1933

British Authors of the Nineteenth Century [editor, with Howard Haycraft] (biography) 1936

American Authors, 1600-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of American Literature [editor, with Howard Haycraft] (biography) 1938

Twentieth-Century Authors: A Biographical Dictionary of Modern Literature [editor, with Howard Haycraft] (biography) 1942

British Authors before 1800: A Biographical Dictionary [editor, with Howard Haycraft] (biography) 1952

European Authors, 1000-1900: A Biographical Dictionary of European Literature [editor, with Vineta Colby] (biography) 1967

Poems of Akhmatova [editor and translator, with Max Hayward] (poetry) 1973

Robert Lowell: Poet of Terribilita (lecture) 1974

Story under Full Sail [translator, from the poetry of Andrei Voznesensky] (poetry) 1974

A Kind of Order, a Kind of Folly: Essays and Conversations (essays and conversations) 1975

World Authors, 1970-1975 [editor, with John Wakeman] (biography) 1980

The Essential Blake [editor] (poetry) 1987