John Hollander (1929–2013)
Auteur de Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
A propos de l'auteur
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 & afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Œuvres de John Hollander
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman (1993) — Directeur de publication — 394 exemplaires
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk… (1993) — Directeur de publication — 383 exemplaires
Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2005) — Directeur de publication — 189 exemplaires
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Directeur de publication — 187 exemplaires
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England (1973) — Directeur de publication — 174 exemplaires
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 173 exemplaires
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century {complete} (1993) — Directeur de publication — 167 exemplaires
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2001) — Directeur de publication — 103 exemplaires
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Directeur de publication — 25 exemplaires
Discovery techniques : a practical guide to the discovery process in civil actions (2013) 5 exemplaires
Wind & the Rain: An Anthology of Poems for Young People (Granger Index Reprint Series) (1977) 3 exemplaires
Movie-going, and other poems 3 exemplaires
With Regard to an Old Notebook 1 exemplaire
Kinneret 1 exemplaire
Spenser and the Mingled Measure 1 exemplaire
Poetry of Restitution 1 exemplaire
Philomel 1 exemplaire
Frost: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 1 exemplaire
Crossing Boundaries: The Art of Lee Waisler 1 exemplaire
A Hollander garland 1 exemplaire
the Selected Poetry of Keats 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 917 exemplaires
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributeur — 447 exemplaires
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributeur — 151 exemplaires
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributeur — 99 exemplaires
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributeur — 17 exemplaires
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributeur — 12 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- HOLLANDER, John
- Date de naissance
- 1929-10-28
- Date de décès
- 2013-08-17
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- VS
- Lieu de naissance
- New York, New York, VS
- Lieu du décès
- Branford, Connecticut, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA
- Études
- Columbia University
- Professions
- poet
literary critic - Relations
- Trilling, Lionel (teacher)
- Organisations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1979)
- Prix et distinctions
- Bollingen Prize (1983)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1963)
Poet Laureate of Connecticut
Frost Medal (2007) - Courte biographie
- 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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