Criticism & Scholarship
CRITICISM, SCHOLARSHIP, AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
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The Crowns of Apollo: Swinburne’s Principles of Literature and Art, Wayne State University Press, 1965
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Victorians on Literature and Art, Appleton Century, 1961 America: The Diary of a Visit, By Edmund Goss, edited by Robert Peters, Purdue University 1966 |
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The Letters of John Addington Symonds, Ed. with H.Schueller, 3 vols, Wayne State University Press, 1967-1969 |
Pioneers of Modern Poetry, with George Hitchcock, Kayak Press, 1967 |
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Gabriel: A Poem by John Addington Symonds, Edited by Robert Peters & Timothy D’Arch Smith, London: Harrington 1974 |
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The Lost Ghabals of the 1st Century Persian Poet Harun abu-Hatim al-Farskin Recently Discovered, Red Hill, 1979 |
The great American poetry bake-off, first series, The Scarecrow Press, 1979 |
The great American poetry bake-off, second series, The Scarecrow Press, 1982 |
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The Peters’ Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, first series, Cherry Valley Editions, New York, 1983 |
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The Peters’ Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, second series, Cherry Valley Editions, New York, 1985 |
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The Peters’ Black and Blue Guide to Current Literary Journals, third series, Dustbooks, 1987 |
The great American poetry bake-off, third series, The Scarecrow Press, 1987 |
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Letters to a Tutor: The Tennyson Family Letters to Henry Graham Dakyns, Scarecrow Press, 1989
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Hunting The Snark, A Compendium of Poetic Terminology, Paragon House, 1989 |
The great American poetry bake-off, fourth series, Rowman & Littlefield, 1991 |
Where The Bee Sucks, Leaping Dog Press, 1994 |
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Hunting The Snark, American Poetry At Century’s End, Revised Edition: Classification and Commentary, Avisson Press, 1997 |





Pioneers of Modern Poetry, with George Hitchcock, 

The great American poetry bake-off, first series,
The great American poetry bake-off, second series, 


The great American poetry bake-off, third series, 
Hunting The Snark, A Compendium of Poetic Terminology,
The great American poetry bake-off, fourth series,
Where The Bee Sucks, 