Thwaite died on 22 April 2021 at the age of 90. Appraisal of his work Praise for Thwaite's poetry came from many fellow writers. The novelist Anthony Burgess commended him: "Very intelligent, also witty, with a wide stretch of subject matter and a great boldness." The playwright and novelist Michael Frayn wrote, "I think of all the living poets whose work I know Anthony Thwaite speaks to me most strongly and intimately. He writes with simplicity and precision about difficult and ambiguous things....the vastness and richness of the past, the elusiveness of the present - and the heroic persistence of our efforts to fix some trace of all this." Thwaite was pleased to be called "a fine comic poet" by Sean O'Brien. One of his best light poems was included by Christopher Ricks in his Oxford Book of English Verse, and Thwaite is also well represented in Larkin's Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse. Tobias Hill called him "a master of domestic disquiet" in The Times, reviewing his Collected Poems (2007). He wrote: "This is spectacular poetry. It deserves to be read: good readers deserve to read it." Works Anthony Thwaite (Fantasy Press, 1953). Fantasy Poets 17 Oxford Poetry 1954 (1954), editor with Jonathan Price Poems (1957). Privately printed in Tokyo Essays on Contemporary English Poetry (1957) Home Truths (1957), poems Contemporary English Poetry - An Introduction (1961) New Poems 1961: A P.E.N Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1961), editor with Hilary Corke and William Plomer The Owl in the Tree (1963), poems Japan in Color (1967) The Stones of Emptiness: Poems 1963-66 (1967) Deserts of Hesperides: an Experience in Libya (1969) At Dunkeswell Abbey (1970), broadside poem Penguin Modern Poets 18 (1970), with A. Alvarez and Roy Fuller Points (1972) Inscriptions, Poems 1967–72 (1973) Jack (1973) poem Poetry Today 1960-1973 (1973) Roloff Beny In Italy (1974), with Peter Porter, Gore Vidal New Confessions (1974), poems The English Poets - From Chaucer to Edward Thomas (1974), with Peter Porter Beyond the Inhabited World: Roman Britain (1977) A Portion for Foxes (1977), poems Twelve Poems (1978) Twentieth Century English Poetry : An Introduction (1978) New Poetry 4 (1978), Arts Council anthology, editor with Fleur Adcock Victorian Voices (1980), poems Odyssey : Mirror of the Mediterranean (1981) Larkin at Sixty (1982) editor The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse (1983), editor with Geoffrey Bownas Telling Tales (1983) Poems 1953–1983 (1984) Six Centuries of Verse