John Hollander (1929–2013)
Auteur van Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse
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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 & toon meer 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) toon minder
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Werken van John Hollander
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman (1993) — Redacteur — 391 exemplaren
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk… (1993) — Redacteur — 381 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Redacteur — 187 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England (1973) — Redacteur — 174 exemplaren
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 173 exemplaren
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2001) — Redacteur — 102 exemplaren
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Redacteur — 25 exemplaren
Discovery techniques : a practical guide to the discovery process in civil actions (2013) 5 exemplaren
Wind & the Rain: An Anthology of Poems for Young People (Granger Index Reprint Series) (1977) 3 exemplaren
Movie-going, and other poems 3 exemplaren
With Regard to an Old Notebook 1 exemplaar
Kinneret 1 exemplaar
Spenser and the Mingled Measure 1 exemplaar
Poetry of Restitution 1 exemplaar
Philomel 1 exemplaar
Frost: Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) 1 exemplaar
Crossing Boundaries: The Art of Lee Waisler 1 exemplaar
A Hollander garland 1 exemplaar
the Selected Poetry of Keats 1 exemplaar
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- 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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