Beginning work on a long autobiography in verse,
which was to become Genesis.
1938
Published book: In Dreams Begins Responsibilities (poems and stories).
Well-received.
1941
Published Shenandoah, a verse play written in the mid-1930s.
Introduces the author into the work, to comment on the action.
1943
Published Genesis, a prose poem, "the long poem that he regarded as his major work";
by this time "he had already been the leading poet of his generation for five years"
[The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch].
Its technique is
"a narrative interrupted by commentary from a chorus of ghosts".
[The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch].
Ill-received.
1948
Published The World is a Wedding, a collection of short stories.
1950
Published Vaudeville for a Princess and Other Poems.
Includes serious poems, parodies, and prose sketches.
1959
Published Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems.