John Hollander (1929–2013)
Autor(a) de Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
About the Author
John Hollander has edited several Everyman's Library Pocket Poet volumes, including "Robert Frost", "Christmas Poems", "War Poems", "Marriage Poems", "Animal Poems", & "Garden Poems". He is the A. Bartlett Biamatti Professor of English at Yale University, & the author of numerous books of poetry & mostrar mais criticism. He was made a MacArthur Fellow in 1990. (Publisher Provided) John Hollander was born in Manhattan, New York on October 28, 1929. He received a B.A. in 1950 and a master's degree in 1952 from Columbia University and a doctorate in 1959 from Indiana University. He taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and Yale University, where he was named Sterling Professor of English in 1995 and retired in 2002. As a young poet, he fell under the influence of W. H. Auden and it was Auden who selected Hollander's first collection of poems, A Crackling of Thorns, for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, which was published it in 1958 with an introduction by Auden. During his lifetime he wrote several collections of poetry including The Night Mirror: Poems, Harp Lake, Tesserae, and A Draft of Light. He also wrote many works of criticism including The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry, 1500-1700, Vision and Resonance, The Gazer's Spirit, and The Work of Poetry. He edited the two-volume collection American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century for the Library of America. He died of pulmonary congestion on August 17, 2013 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de John Hollander
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman (1993) — Editor — 391 cópias
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk… (1993) — Editor — 381 cópias
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Editor — 187 cópias
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England (1973) — Editor — 174 cópias
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 173 cópias
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Editor — 25 cópias
Wind & the Rain: An Anthology of Poems for Young People (Granger Index Reprint Series) (1977) 3 cópias
Movie-going, and other poems 3 cópias
The Poetry of Song: Five Tributes to Stephen Sondheim 1 exemplar(es)
With Regard to an Old Notebook 1 exemplar(es)
Kinneret 1 exemplar(es)
Larry Day: series and variations, March 1 - April 7, 2001 1 exemplar(es)
Spenser and the Mingled Measure 1 exemplar(es)
Poetry of Restitution 1 exemplar(es)
Philomel 1 exemplar(es)
Frost: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 1 exemplar(es)
Crossing Boundaries: The Art of Lee Waisler 1 exemplar(es)
A Hollander garland 1 exemplar(es)
the Selected Poetry of Keats 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 915 cópias
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuinte — 148 cópias
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contribuinte — 99 cópias
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Contribuinte — 62 cópias
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias
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Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- HOLLANDER, John
- Data de nascimento
- 1929-10-28
- Data de falecimento
- 2013-08-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- VS
- Local de nascimento
- New York, New York, VS
- Local de falecimento
- Branford, Connecticut, USA
- Locais de residência
- Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA
- Educação
- Columbia University
- Ocupação
- poet
literary critic - Relacionamentos
- Trilling, Lionel (teacher)
- Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1979)
- Premiações
- Bollingen Prize (1983)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1963)
Poet Laureate of Connecticut
Frost Medal (2007) - Pequena biografia
- John Hollander wrote and edited numerous books of poetry and criticism including, Picture Window (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003) and A Crackling of Thorns (Yale University Press, 1958), which was chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and former poet laureate of Connecticut, he taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, the CUNY Graduate Center, and Yale, where he was the Sterling Professor emeritus of English. Hollander died on August 17, 2013, at the age of 83.
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