To our children's children : preserving family histories for generations to come

A little book on form : an exploration into the formal imagination of poetry

Introduction -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- A note on numbers -- Blank verse -- Sonnet -- Reading the sonnet -- Victorian medievalism: sestina and villanelle -- A note on genre -- Ode -- Reading the ode -- Elegy -- Reading the elegy -- Satire -- Georgic -- Variable stanzas and organic form -- Difficult forms -- Collage, abstraction, Oulipo, and procedural poetics -- Mixed forms -- Prose poem -- A note on stress -- How to scan a poem -- How free verse works -- Acknowledgments -- Credits.

South and West : from a notebook

Prose works. Selections

Freshwater

Hungry heart : adventures in life, love, and writing

Hemingway, the Paris years

Tolkien and the Great War : the threshold of Middle-earth

10:04 : a novel

I wrote this book because I love you : essays

Essays. Selections

Death-defying acts -- Kind of love -- Oof -- Our war on terror -- The feast of pain -- The dilemma -- A man and his cat -- The strange situation -- On smushing -- Orientation -- The uncertainty principle -- I never went to Iceland.

Roman stories

Racconti romani. English

The boundary -- The re-entry -- P's parties -- Well-lit house -- The steps-- The delivery-- The procession.

Murder by the book : the crime that shocked Dickens's London

Jack Sheppard.

How to read literature like a professor : a lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines