John Hollander (1929–2013)
Author of 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 & show more 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) show less
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Works by John Hollander
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume One: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman (1993) — Editor — 381 copies
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk… (1993) — Editor — 375 copies
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Editor — 182 copies
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England (1973) — Editor — 172 copies
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 169 copies
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Editor — 25 copies
Movie-going, and other poems 3 copies
Wind & the Rain: An Anthology of Poems for Young People (Granger Index Reprint Series) (1977) 3 copies
the Selected Poetry of Keats 1 copy
A Hollander garland 1 copy
Kinneret 1 copy
Poetry of Restitution 1 copy
Philomel 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 902 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 147 copies
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 99 copies
Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets (Yale Series of Younger Poets) (2019) — Contributor — 11 copies
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- Other names
- HOLLANDER, John
- Birthdate
- 1929-10-28
- Date of death
- 2013-08-17
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Branford, Connecticut, USA
- Places of residence
- Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA
- Education
- Columbia University
- Occupations
- poet
literary critic - Relationships
- Trilling, Lionel (teacher)
- Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1979)
- Awards and honors
- Bollingen Prize (1983)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1963)
Poet Laureate of Connecticut
Frost Medal (2007) - Short biography
- 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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American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 1… by John Hollander
Good Lord do I hate Walt Whitman. The other reviewer of this volume has been brainwashed. He believes Whitman is any good (let alone the best thing in the volume) because he's been told to believe it. Whitman is trash. Whitman didn't write poetry. Whitman is the worst thing to ever happen to American poetry. Imagine worshipping Whitman and denigrating Longfellow -- Longfellow!
The Library of America is like an archive of the best America offers in its authors. These are American poets lived in the 1800's.
I came to this book in a round-about way looking for more info about Edwin Arlington Robinson after confusing him with Edgar Lee Masters. This was one of the few books that carried his work. The collection of poems found here are clever and sharp, mostly highlighting the 20th century. The usual suspects appear: Dorothy Parker, Ogden Nash, Kenneth Koch whose riffs on William Carlos Williams are hilarious. But there are also a few from Robert Frost, E.B. White and W.H. Auden who seem less playful in the works I've read prior to this. The fun part of this is that many of the poems and poets skewer each other and famous people of the time. Cultural and literary references abound showing the writers to have a good pulse on their generation.… (more)
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