Award Getty Foundation grant

Honorary Doctorate (University of Chicago, 1996)

Honorary Doctorate (University of Athens, 2009)

Melville Cane award (1973)

Keats-Shelley Association of America award (1989)

Byron Society of America Distinguished Scholar Award (1989);

Wilbur Cross Medal (1994)

Richard W. Lyman Award (for Distinguished Contributions to Humanities Computing, 2002)

Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award (2002)

Fulbright Fellow (1965–66)

American Philosophical Society Fellow (1967)

Guggenheim Fellow (1970–71, 1976–77)

NEH grants (1975-76, 1987–89, 2003–2006)

Delmas Foundation grant

Mellon Foundation grant

University of London. Institute of English Studies senior research fellow (1999- )

University College, London senior research fellow (2000- )