100 Poets

A Little Anthology

2021

A Little History of Poetry

2020

A Single Ray of the Sun

1999

Eyewitness to History

1987

Eyewitness to Science

Scientists and Writers Illuminate Natural Phenomena from Fossils to Fractals

1997

John Donne

Life, Mind and Art

1981

John Milton

Complete Shorter Poems

1970

Original Copy

Selected Reviews and Journalism, 1969-86

1987

Pure Pleasure

A Guide to the Twentieth Century's Most Enjoyable Books

2001

Sunday Best

80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews

2022

Thackeray

Prodigal Genius

1977

The Essential Paradise Lost

2017

The Faber Book of Science

1995

The Intellectuals and the Masses

Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

1992

The Violent Effigy

A Study of Dickens' Imagination

2008

What Good Are the Arts?

2005

William Golding

The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

2009