Richard Poirier

Richard Poirier (born Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1925, died New York City, August 15, 2009) was an American literary critic.

He co-founded of the Library of America, and served as chairman of its Board.

Works

• Stories British and American (1953) with Jack Barry Ludwig
• The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels (1960)
• In Defense of Reading : A Readers Approach to Literary Criticism (1963) editor with Reuben A.Brower
• A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature (1966)
• American Literature: Volume Two (Little, Brown 1970) editor with William L. Vance
• The Oxford Reader: Varieties of Contemporary Discourse (1971) editor with Frank Kermode
• The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life (1971)
• Mailer (Fontana Modern Masters, 1972)
• Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (1977)
• The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections (Random House, 1987) ISBN 0394501403
• Raritan Reading (1990) editor
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1990)
• Poetry and Pragmatism (1992)
• Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays of Robert Frost (Library of America, 1995) editor with Mark Richardson
• Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances (2003)

External links

• New York Times obituary
• Biographical page
• Special issue of College Hill Review (No. 5, Winter/Spring 2010) devoted to Richard Poirier and his legacy. Contributors include former colleagues, friends, and students. Among the articles is an extensive annotated bibliography of Poirier's writings.