We derive by analytic means a number of bilateral identities of the RogersâRamanujan type. Our results include bilateral extensions of the RogersâRamanujan and the GöllnitzâGordon identities, and of related identities by Ramanujan, Jackson, and Slater. We give corresponding results for multisums including multilateral extensions of the AndrewsâGordon identities, of the AndrewsâBressoud generalization of the GöllnitzâGordon identities, of Bressoudâs even modulus identities, and other identities. Our closed form bilateral and multilateral summations appear to be the very first of their kind.