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 the Library of America, and served as chairman of its board. He was the Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature at Rutgers University.[1] He was also the editor of Raritan, a literary quarterly, and an editor of Partisan Review. He was series editor of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards from 1961-1966.
In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.[2]
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 Reader's 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 0-394-50140-3
- 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)
References
- ^ Mack, Arien (Editor) (Autumn 1988). "IN TIME OF PLAGUE THE HISTORY AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF LETHAL EPIDEMIC DISEASE". Social Research. 55 (3). Retrieved 10 March 2011.
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has generic name (help) - ^ “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” January 30, 1968 New York Post