Authored books
Reading Horace. Edinburgh University Press 1967
The imagery and poetry of Lucretius. Edinburgh University Press 1969
Virgil: the Aeneid. Penguin Books 1990
Horace: Odes I. Carpe diem. Oxford University Press 1995
Horace. The complete Odes and Epodes. Oxford World’s Classics 1997
Horace: Odes II. Vatis amici. Oxford University Press 1998
Horace: Odes III. Dulce periculum. Oxford University Press 2002
Shakespeare’s Sonnets: a commentary. Duckworth Overlook 2007
Co-edited books
Quality and pleasure in Latin poetry. Cambridge University Press 1974
Creative imitation and Latin literature. Cambridge University Press 1979
Poetry and politics in the age of Augustus. Cambridge University Press 1984
Articles and pamphlets
‘The metre of Catullus’ elegiacs’, CQ 7 (1957) 98–102
‘Two notes on Lucretius’, CQ 14 (1964) 94–102
‘Lucretius II,453–455’, CR 14 (1964) 4–6
‘Lucretius 5,312 and 5,30’, Hermes 93 (1965) 496–502
‘Sallust, Iugurtha LXXXV,10’, Mnemosyne 18 (1965) 74–5
‘Haurire, haustus. Lucr. v,1069’, CQ 15 (1965) 271–80
‘Lucretius ii, 203’, RhM 110 (1967) 195
‘Multiple-correspondence similes in the Aeneid’, JRS 59 (1969) 40–9
‘Virgilian multiple-correspondence similes and their antecedents’, Philologus 114 (1970) 262–75
‘The deaths of Hector and Turnus’, G&R 21 (1974) 21–31
‘Of mice and men: Horace, Satires 2.6.77–117’, in Quality and pleasure in Latin poetry (Cambridge 1974) 67–80
‘Lucretius’ methods of argument (3.417–614)’, CQ 25 (1975) 94–116
‘Cernere erat. The shield of Aeneas’, PVS 15 (1975–6) 1–6
‘Herculis claua. Virgil and his models’, Acta Philologica Aenipontana 4 (1979) 77–9
‘Two plagues. Virgil, Georgics 3.478–566 and Lucretius 6.1090–1286’, in Creative imitation and Latin literature (Cambridge 1979) 71–88
‘Pauca meo Gallo’, LCM 8 (1983) 92–3
The bough and the gate. Jackson Knight Memorial Lecture. University of Exeter 1987
‘The Aeneid and the translator’, G&R 37 (1990) 52–64
‘Cur me querelis: Horace, Odes 2.17’, AJP 112 (1991) 45–52
‘Easter-wings’ and ‘Easter-wings: addendum’, Notes and Queries 39 (1992) 448–52 and 489–90
‘On serial narration and on the Julian Star’, PVS 21 (1993) 1–16
‘The pageant of the heroes as panegyric (Virgil, Aen. 6.760-886)’, in Tria Lustra (ed. H. D.Jocelyn, Liverpool 1993) 283–96
‘In the wake of Aeneas: Aeneid 3.274–88, 3.500–5, 8.200–3’, G&R 41 (1994) 57–61
‘Me, you, or us?’, Vergilius 40 (1994) 35–6 Cast out theory, Classical Association 1995
‘Reading the metre in Horace, Odes 3.9’, in Homage to Horace (ed. S. J. Harrison, Oxford 1995) 100–7
‘The end and the meaning: Aeneid 12.791–842’, in Vergil’s Aeneid: Augustan epic and political context (ed. H.-P. Stahl, London/Swansea 1998) 303–18
‘Speculative historicism’, Histos 4 (2000) 50–8
‘Amores 1.1–5’, in Ancient historiography and its contexts (ed. C. S. Kraus, J. Marincola and C. Pelling, Oxford 2010) 139–54