New York: Random House, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Included are essays on poetry ranging from Dryden to Syliva Plath to Edith Sitwell, on novels, classic and modern, and others on criticism and more from his years as a free-lance critic and literary journalist.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays -on the Caribbean and on poets and writers ranging from Robert Lowell to Hemingway to the Creole writer from Martinque, Patrick Chamoiseau. Includes his Nobel Prize acceptance speech and a short story 'Cafe Martinque.'. ISBN: 0-374-28841-0.