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| Writing | |
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| Acoustical chambers | |
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| The education of the poet | |
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| Jung love | |
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| On literary tradition | |
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| On "The country of a thousand years of peace" | |
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| On "Snapshot of Adam" | |
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| Foreword to Recitative | |
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| From Pourquoi ecrivez-vous | |
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| On allusion | |
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| The poet's notebook | |
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| On Scripts for the pageant : the first five lessons | |
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| On "The ballroom at Sandover | |
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| Foreword to A reader's guide to James Merrill's The changing light at Sandover | |
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| Interviews | |
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| An interview with Donald Sheehan | |
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| An interview with Ashley Brown | |
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| An interview with John Boatwright and Enrique Ucelay DaCal | |
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| On "Yannina" : an interview with David Kalstone | |
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| An interview with Helen Vendler | |
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| An interview with Ross Labrie | |
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| An interview with J.D. McClatchy | |
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| An interview with Jack Stewart | |
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| An interview with Fred Bornhauser | |
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| An interview with Jordan Pecile | |
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| An interview with Thomas Bolt | |
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| An interview with Augustin Hedberg | |
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| An interview with Roderick Townley | |
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| An interview with Heather White | |
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| An interview with Justin Spring | |
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| Writers | |
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| Divine poem | |
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| Unreal citizen | |
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| Object lessons | |
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| On Wallace Steven's centenary | |
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| On "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | |
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| On Montale's "Mottetti VII" | |
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| Foreword to Nineteen poems | |
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| On Elizabeth Bishop | |
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| Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) | |
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| The transparent eye | |
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| 624 White Street | |
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| Memories of Elizabeth Bishop | |
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| Afterword to Becoming a poet | |
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| Memories of Truman Capote | |
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| Memories of Mary McCarthy | |
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| Introducing Richard Wilbur | |
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| Howard Moss | |
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| On W. S. Merwin | |
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| Preface to Burning the knife | |
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| Robert Bragg : a postscript | |
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| The relic, promises, and poems | |
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| The Yale younger poets | |
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| Foreword to The evolution of the flightless bird | |
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| Foreword to Navigable waterways | |
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| Foreword to Terms to be met | |
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| Foreword to Above the land | |
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| Foreword to To the place of trumpets | |
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| Foreword to Out of the woods | |
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| Foreword to Landscape with hermit | |
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| Occasions | |
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| The beaten path | |
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| Garlic soup | |
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| Notes on Corot | |
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| Ten more | |
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| Yannis Tsarouchis | |
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| Acceptance speech, National Book Awards, 1967 | |
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| Acceptance speech, National Book Awards, 1979 | |
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| A class day talk | |
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| Forword to Le Sorelle Bronte | |
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| Ravel's Mother Goose | |
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| Barbara Kassel | |
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| Memorial tribute to David Kalstone | |
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| Memorial tribute to John Bernard Myers | |
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| Memorial tribute to Irma Brandeis | |
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| A tribute to Marie Bullock | |
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| M. F. K. Fisher (1908-1992) | |
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| Memorial tribute to John Hersey | |
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| Patmos | |
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| Stories | |
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| Rose | |
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| Driver | |
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| Peru : the landscape game | |
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| Translations | |
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| Selections from Chamfort | |
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| C. P. Cavafy, "In broad daylight" | |
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| Vassilis Vassilikos, "The three T's" | |
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| Juvenilia | |
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| Madonna | |
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| Angel or earthly creature | |
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| Undergraduate comment | |
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| The transformation of Rilke | |
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| A different person : a memoir (1993) | |