- Canons and Consequences: Reflections on the Ethical Force of Imaginative Ideals
- The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects
- Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: The Contemporaneity of Modernism (Literature & Philosophy)
- Act and Quality: A Theory of Literary Meaning and Humanistic Understanding
- Enlarging the Temple: New Directions in American Poetry During the 1960s