List of Works

Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism

The Anxiety of Influence

The Art of Reading Poetry

A Map of Misreading

The Western Canon: The Books and Schools of the Ages

Yeats

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

The Breaking of the Vessels

Fallen Angels

The Flight to Lucifer

The Ringers in the Tower

The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation

Deconstruction and Criticism

Falstaff

How To Read and Why

(not a complete list)

"I think that academic tenure is an archaic and malicious institution,
and I think it should be abolished everywhere. It was meant to
protect freedom of thought and expression from university
administrations or outward public and societal or even congressional
pressures, but that isn't the way it has worked. It has worked so as
to impose a kind of massive conformity in American colleges and
universities and, indeed, by now, in secondary schools as well. "

 "We have to read Shakespeare, and we have to study Shakespeare. We have to study Dante. We have to read Chaucer. We have to read Cervantes. We have to read the Bible, at least the King James Bible...They provide an intellectual, I dare say, a spiritual value which has nothing to do with organized religion or the history of institutional belief...They not only tell us things that we have forgotten, but they tell us things we couldn't possibly know without them, and they reform our minds."