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BOOKS: The Poetry of the Aeneid (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1965; second printing, 1966; paperback, with new preface, Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1988); Virgil's Pastoral Art:  Studies in the Eclogues (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1970); Tibullus: A Commentary (U. of Oklahoma Press for the APA, 1973; 2nd printing 1979); Virgil's Poem of the Earth (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1979); Essays on Latin Lyric, Elegy, and Epic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982); Artifices of Eternity: Horace's Fourth Book of Odes  (Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1986; paperback, 1996); Virgil’s Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence (Chapel Hill: U. of North Carolina Press, 1995); Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1998); Horace’s Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet’s Art (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2000); Maffeo Vegio: Short Epics, ed. and trans., with J. Hankins, I Tatti Renaissance Library #15 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2004; second printing, with corrections, 2012); Poetic Interplay: Catullus and Horace (Princeton U. Press, 2006); Jacopo Sannazaro: Latin Poetry, ed. and trans., The I Tatti Renaissance Library #38 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2009); The Humanness of Heroes: Studies in the Conclusion of Virgil’s Aeneid (Amsterdam: Amsterdam U. Press, 2011); The Poetic World of Statius’ Silvae (Oxford: Oxford U., 2023).

EDITED BOOKS: Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox ed. with G. Bowersock and W. Burkert  (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1979); Fifteen Odes of Horace, translated by Cedric Whitman ed., with foreword:  (Cambridge, MA: Stinehour, 1980); Virgil: 2000 Years, ed. with introduction: Arethusa 14 (1981); The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, ed. with J. Ziolkowski (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2008); A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition, ed. with J. Farrell,  (Malden/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010; paperback, 2014); The Complete Poems of Tibullus: An En Face Bilingual Edition,  trans. with R. Dennis (hardcover and paperback: U. of California Press, 2012); Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens: The Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi,  ed. with A. Knaap (London: Harvey Miller, 2013).

ARTICLES: “Catullus 66. 75-88,” CP 55 (1960) 223-8; “Throna and Sappho 1.1,” CJ 56 (1960) 79-83; “The Story of the Storm,” NEQ  33 (1960) 489-501; “The Art of Catullus 64,” HSCP 65 (1961)165-205 (reprinted in Approaches to Catullus, ed. K. Quinn, [Cambridge, MA & New York: Heffer, 1972], 225-65); “Catullus' Journey,” CP 57 (1962) 10-19 (reprinted in Approaches to Catullus, ed. K. Quinn (Cambridge, MA & New York: Heffer,  1972) 136-45); “Unity and Design in Aeneid V,” HSCP 66 (1962) 205-39; “Evidence for the Origin of the ‘Script of Luxeuil’,” Speculum 33 (1963) 256-66; “Catullus 25. 5,” CP 59 (1964) 268-70; “The Riddle of Damoetas,” Mnemosyne 18 (1965) 150-4; “The Shrine of Vortumnus,” AJA 71 (1967) 177-9; “A Bibliographical Handlist on Virgil's Aeneid,” with J. Heffner and M. Hammond, CW 60 (l967) 377-388; “Catullus 22.13,” Hermes96 (1968) 552-8; “Horace c. 1. 20,” CJ 64 (1969) 153-7; “Catullus 36.19,” CP 64 (1969) 235-6; “On Catullus 27,” Latomus 28 (1969) 850-7; “Aeneid 7 and the Aeneid,” AJP 91 (1970) 408-30 (reprinted in Virgil: Critical Assessments of Classical Authors, ed. P. Hardie, [London: Routledge, 1999] IV: 244-62); “Horace Carm. 1.5: Love and Death,” CP 65 (1970) 251-4; “Simple Tibullus and the Ruse of Style,” Yale French Studies 45 (1970) 21-32; “Aes Triplex (Horace, Odes 1. 3. 9),” CQ 21 (1971) 454; “Horace and Tibullus,” CP 67 (1972) 81-8; “The Virgilian Achievement,” Arethusa 5 (1972) 53-70; “Horace C. 3.30: The Lyricist as Hero,” Ramus 2 (1973) 1-19; “Three Philosophical Poets," Daedalus 104 (1974) 131-40; “Mercuri, facunde nepos Atlantis,” CP 69 (1974) 215-17; “Catullus 11: The Ironies of Integrity,” Ramus 3 (1974) 70-86; “Italian Virgil and the Idea of Rome,” Janus: Essays in Ancient and Modern Studies (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press,    1975) 171-99 (reprinted in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Vergil’s Georgics, ed. K. Volk [Oxford, 2008] 138-60); “Virgil's First Eclogue: Poetics of Enclosure,” Ramus 4 (1975) 163-86; “Horace Odes 3. 15: the Design of Decus,” CP 71 (1976) 90-6; “Propertius 1.22: A Poet's Self-Definition,” QUCC23 (1976) 93-123; “Propertius 3.22: Tullus' Return,” ICS 2 (1977) 240-54; “Horace Odes 3.9: The Dialectics of Desire,” Ancient and Modern: Essays in Honor of Gerald F. Else (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 1977) 139-57 (reprinted in Why Horace? A Collection of Interpretations, ed. W. S. Anderson [Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999] 180-94); “Propertius' Third Book: Patterns of Cohesion,” Arethusa 13 (1980) 97-113; “Propertius and the New Gallus Fragment,” ZPE 39 (1980) 49-56; “The Third Book of the Aeneid: From Homer to Rome,” Ramus 9 (1980) 1-21; “Pius Aeneas and the Metamorphosis of Lausus,” Arethusa 14 (1981) 139-56 (reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Virgil, ed. H. Bloom [New York: Chelsea House, 1986], 157-171); “The Future of Catullus,” TAPA 113 (1983) 243-62; “The Hesitation of Aeneas," Atti del Convegno mondiale scientifico di studi su Virgilio 1981 (Milan: Mondadori, 1984) 233-52 (reprinted in Virgil: Critical Assessments of Classical Authors, ed. P. Hardie [London: Routledge, 1999] IV: 414-33); “Romulus Tropaeophorus (Aeneid 6.779-780),” CQ 35 (1985) 237-40; “Possessiveness, Sexuality and Heroism in the Aeneid,” Vergilius 31 (1985) 1-21; “Daedalus, Virgil and the End of Art,” AJP 108 (1987) 173-98 (reprinted in Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations, ed. S. Quinn [Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000] 220-40); reprinted in Critical Insights: The Aeneid: Vergil, ed. R. J. Forman [Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011] 234-64); “Virgil's Inferno,” MD 20-21 (1988) 165-202 (reprinted in The Poetry of Allusion: Virgil and Ovid in Dante's 'Commedia', ed. R. Jacoff and J. Schnapp [Stanford: Stanford U. Press, 1991] 94-112; “Virgil and Tacitus Ann. 1.10,” CQ 39 (1989) 563-64; “Catullus and Virgil Aen. 6.786-7,” Vergilius 35 (1989), 28-30; “Horace Carm. 2.9: Augustus and the Ambiguities of Encomium” in Between Republic and Empire, ed. K. Raaflaub and M. Toher (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1990), 212-38; “Anger, Blindness and Insight in Virgil's Aeneid,” Apeiron 23 (1990) 7-40; “Virgil's Lapiths,” CQ 40 (1990) 562-6; “Virgil's Tragic Future: Senecan Drama and the Aeneid,” in La Storia, La Letteratura e l'Arte a Roma da Tibero a Domiziano (Mantua: Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana, 1992) 231-91; “Umbro, Nireus and Love's Threnody,” Vergilius 38 (1992), 12-23; “The Languages of Horace Odes 1. 24," Classical Journal 88 (1992-93), 123-135 (reprinted in Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Horace: Odes and Epodes, ed. M. Lowrie [Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2009], 188-201); “Structure and Design in Horace’s Odes 1. 17,” CW 87 (1994) 357-75; “Virgil’s Danaid Ekphrasis,” ICS 19 (1994) 171-89; “John Petersen Elder,” in Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists, ed. Ward W. Briggs (Westport, 1994), 159-60; “Design and Allusion in Horace, Odes I. 6,” in Homage to Horace: A Bimillenary Celebration, ed. S. J. Harrison (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 1995) 50-64; “From Lyric to Letter: Iccius in Horace Odes 1.29 and Epistles 1.12,” Arethusa 28 (1995) 193-207; “Ganymede and Virgilian Ekphrasis,” AJP 116 (1995) 419-40; “Silvia's Stag and Virgilian Ekphrasis,” MD 34 (1995), 107-33; “Thoughts on Horatian modus,” in In Vino Veritas, ed. O. Murray and M. Tecusan = Papers of the British School at Rome (London, 1995), 280-82; “Dido and Wine,” in In Vino Veritas, ed. O. Murray and M. Tecusan = Papers of the British School at Rome (London, 1995), 295-6; “The Lyric Genius of the Aeneid,” Arion 3 (1995-6) 81-101 (reprinted in Why Vergil?A Collection of Interpretations, ed. S. Quinn [Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000], 255-66); “Horace C.3, 14 and the Designing of Augustus,” in Zeitgenosse Horaz: Der Dichter und seine Leser seit zwei Jahrtausenden, ed. H. Krasser and E. A. Schmidt (Tübingen: G. Narr, 1996), 442-63; “Horace's Arboreal Anniversary (C. 3.8),” Ramus 25 (1996) 27-38; “Carmi: libro IV,” in Orazio: Enciclopedia Oraziana I (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1996), 294-9; “Dido’s Murals and Virgilian Ekphrasis,” HSCP 98 (1998) 243-75; “Turnus, Homer, and Heroism,” Literary Imagination 1 (1999) 61-78; “Aeneid 12: Unity in Closure,” in Reading Vergil’s Aeneid: An Interpretive Guide, ed. C. Perkell (Norman: U. of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 210-30; “Foreword,” Why Vergil? A Collection of Interpretations, ed. S. Quinn (Wauconda, 2000), vii-xii ; “Horace c. 3.23: Ritual and Art,” in Rome and her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of Katherine A. Geffcken, ed. S. K. Dickison and J. P. Hallett (Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2000), 521-43 (reprinted in Ten Years of the Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Thomas Library, Bryn Mawr College [2006], 71-87); “Vergil’s Aeneid: The Final lines,” in Poets and Critics read Vergil, ed. S. Spence (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2001) 86-104; “The Ambiguity of Art in Virgil’s Aeneid,” PAPhS 145 (2001) 162-83; “The Loom of Latin,” TAPA 131 (2001) 329-39; “Introduction,” Horace and Greek Lyric Poetry, Rethymnon Classical Studies 1 (2002) 1-6; “Ovid, Virgil and Myrrha’s Metamorphic Exile,” Vergilius 47 (2001) 171-93; “Vergil’s Aeneid and the Evolution of Augustus,” in Approaches to Teaching Vergil’s Aeneid, ed. W. S. Anderson and L. Quartarone (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2002) 114-22; “‘Turnus’ Phalarica (Aen. IX, 705), Hommages à Carl Deroux, Collection Latomus #266 (Brussels; Latomus, 2002) 433-42; “Horace epi. 1. 13: Compliments to Augustus,” in Gestures: Essays in Ancient History Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L. Boegehold on the Occasion of his Retirement and Seventy-Fifth Birthday, ed. G. W. Bakewell and James P. Sickinger (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2003) 100-12; “Two Ways of Looking at the Aeneid,” CW 96 (2003) 177-84; “Daphne’s Roots,” Hermathena 177/178 (2004-5) 71-89; “Virgil and Tibullus 1.1,” CP 100 (2005) 123-41; “Virgil’s Aeneid,” in A Companion to Ancient Epic, ed. J. M. Foley (Malden/Oxford: Wiley-Backwell, 2005; paperback, 2009), 452-75; “Horace to Torquatus: Epistle 1.5 and Ode 4.7,” AJP 127 (2006) 387-413; “The Aeneid and Paradise Lost: Ends and Conclusions,” Literary Imagination 8 (2006) 387-410; “Horace Carm. 4.7 and the Epic Tradition,” CW 100 (2007) 255-62; “Troy in Latin Literature,” NECJ 34 (2007) 195-205; “Virgil and Wilder’s The Cabala,” New England Classical Journal 37 (2010), 113-19; “Introduction,” with J. Farrell, in Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition, ed. with J.Farrell (Malden & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) 1-9; “Vergil, Ovid, and the Poetry of Exile,” in Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition, ed. with J. Farrell (Malden & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) 80-95; “The Carmen Saeculare” in A Companion to Horace, ed. G. Davis (Malden/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) 231-49; “Some Virgilian Unities,” in Classical Literary Careers and their Reception, ed. P. Hardie and H. Moore (Cambridge, MA:  2010), 17-38; “Vergil and Seamus Heaney,” Vergilius 56 (2010) 3-16; “Virgil and Sannazaro’s Ekphrastic Vision,” Ramus 40 (2011) 73-86; “Virgil and Heaney: ‘Route 110,’” Arion 19 (2012) 79-107; “Frigidus Sanguis: Lucretius, Virgil and Death," in Roman Literature, Gender, and Reception: Domina Illustris. Essays in honor of Judith Peller Hallett, ed. D. Lateiner, B. Gold and J. Perkins (New York: Routledge, 2013; paperback, 2017), 28-39; “Spenser and Frost 'The Silken Tent’.” Notes and Queries 258 (2013) 295; “Petronius Satyrica 89,” CW 106 (2013) 487-91; “Virgil and the Pompa," in Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens: The Pompa Introitus Ferdinandi, ed. with A. Knapp (London: Harvey Miller, 2013) 169-88; “Dido's Long Dying,” Daedalus 143 (2014) 99-106; “Virgil, Pietro da Cortona, and the Heroism of Aeneas,” MAAR 59/60 (2014/15) 399-420; “The Injunction of Apollo (Aen. 9. 638-60),” in Virgilian Studies. A Miscellany dedicated to the Memory of Mario Geymonat, ed. H.-C. Günther and Paolo Fedeli =Studia Classica et Mediaevalia#10 (Nordhausen: Traugott Bautz, 2015) 403-28; “The Frontispiece and Opening Emblem of the Imago: A Translation” (51-5), “Introductions to the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Poetry: The Latin Poems of the Imago Primi Saeculi” (411-4, 421); “The Emblems” (423-705) in Art, Controversy, and the Jesuits: The Imago Primi Saeculi (1640), ed.  J. W. O'Malley, Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts, vol. 12 (Philadelphia, 2015): “Explicating Catullus,” Daedalus 145 (2016) 68; “The Sense of Two Endings: How Virgil and Statius Conclude,” ICS 41 (2016) 85-149; “Horatius Felix,” in Hope, Joy, and Affection in the Classical World, ed. R.R. Caston and R. Kaster (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2016) 111-22; “Virgil and the Achilles of Catullus,” in Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry, ed. P. Mitsis and I. Ziogas =Trends in Classics, vol. 36 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016) 151-68; “Statius Silvae 3.2: Reading Travel,” ICS 42 (2017) 83-139; “Virgil the Homerist,” CW 111 (2017) 101-3; “Regina Aurea(Aen. 1.697-98),” ICS 43 (2018) 176-8; “Baebius Italicus's Ilias Latina and the End of Vergil's Aeneid,” Vergilius 64 (2018) 157-71; “Statius Silvae 1.3: A Stream and Two Villas,” ICS 44 (2019), 66-100; “Nero's Choice: Seneca's De Clementia and the Conclusion of the Aeneid,” Vergilius 65 (2019) 3-32; “The Arete Award: A Lifetime With the Classics: Michael Putnam's Comments on the Permanent Mutability of Great Literature” In Medias Res, 18 May, 2019, abridged in the American Academy in Rome Magazine, Fall/Winter (2019-20) 22-3; “A Labor of Love: Statius Silvae 3.1 (Hercules Surrentinus Polli Felicis),” ICS 45 (2020) 158-223; “Statius Silvae 2.3: The Garden of Atedius Melior: A Change for the Better,” ICS 46 (2021) 241-85; “Horace c. 3.27 and Virgil, Aeneid 9,” NECJ 50.2 (2023), 1-8; "Fields That Mourn: Personified Campi in Aeneid 6, with J. D. Reed, TBP.