 Over the course of his career, he directed many doctoral dissertations that resulted in successful books and academic careers, and advised dozens of other students who went on to careers in translation, publishing, and other corridors of the Arts.Sieburth is considered an authority on French renaissance poetry, on European romanticism and on literary modernism in general, particularly the life and work of Ezra Pound.In addition to his numerous editions of the works of Pound for New Directions and the Library of America, Sieburth has published translations of Nostradamus, Maurice Scève, Louise Labé, Friedrich Hölderlin, Georg Büchner, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Henri Michaux, Antonin Artaud, Michel Leiris, Eugène Guillevic, and Jacques Darras.