 He published translations of works by Georg Lukács, "The Historical Novel" in 1962, Walter Benjamin, "Understanding Brecht" in 2003, and Alexander Pushkin.His life's work was a translation into English verse of Pushkin's Russian verse novel "Eugene Onegin", commenced in 1966 and published in 2008.In this he has been praised for capturing not only the precise meaning, but also the wit, the grace and the constantly varying intonations of Pushkin's voice.