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 — 405 copies, 2 reviews
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, Volume Two: Herman Melville to Trumbull Stickney, American Indian Poetry, Folk… (1993) — Editor — 394 copies, 2 reviews
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume I: The Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century (1973) — Editor — 189 copies
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England (1973) — Editor — 177 copies
The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Volume II: 1800 to the Present (1973) — Joint Comp. — 175 copies
Sonnets: From Dante to the Present (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) (2001) — Editor — 108 copies, 1 review
The Oxford anthology of English literature — Editor — 29 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
American Poetry 1 copy
Some Fugitives Take Cover 1 copy
Poetry of Restitution 1 copy
Kinneret 1 copy
Philomel 1 copy
Associated Works
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,305 copies, 9 reviews
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 947 copies, 7 reviews
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Contributor — 458 copies, 1 review
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contributor — 153 copies, 1 review
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contributor — 101 copies, 1 review
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (2016) — Contributor — 67 copies
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Contributor — 17 copies, 1 review
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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