Over his career as a professor and creative writer spanning half a century, he has produced some 40 or 50 works in all. These include poetry, drama in verse, essays, translations, criticism and anthologies of famous works. His work combines the poet's sensitive and melancholic aesthetic and the social critic's incisive, self-reflective style. His work's impact on Taiwanese literature runs wide and deep.
筆耕不輟的楊牧，在長達半世紀的教學與創作生涯中，總計出版了包括詩、詩劇、散文、翻譯、評論及編選名家文集等四、五十本著作，他融合詩人敏銳沈鬱美感與社會觀察家的犀利自省筆風的作品，帶給台灣文壇的影響十分深遠。