John Hollander

John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City , † August 17, 2013 in Branford / Connecticut ) was an American poet.

biography

Hollander studied at Columbia University and Indiana University and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University from 1954 to 1957 . After two years at Connecticut College , he taught at Yale University from 1959 , most recently as Sterling Professor emeritus . He also served from 1966 to 1977 professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York .

His first volume of poetry, A Crackling of Thorns , won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award . In total, he published more than a dozen volumes of poetry. In addition, he wrote several works on literary theory and published works by authors as diverse as Ben Jonson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti . His two-volume anthology American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century , published in 1994, found great acclaim . With Robert Hass , Carolyn Kizer , Nathaniel Mackey and Marjorie Perloff , he developed the supplementary volume American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000). He was a co-founder of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers .

Hollander also emerged as a children's book author and worked with composers such as Milton Babbitt , George Perle and Hugo Weisgall . He was u. a. with the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1983, with Anthony Hecht ), the Levinson Prize and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association and was a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts . In 1974 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and 1979 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Works

Poetry

• A Crackling of Thorns , 1958
• A Beach Vision , 1962
• Movie Going and Other Poems , 1962
• Various Owls , 1963
• Visions from the Ramble , 1965
• The Quest of the Gole , 1966
• Philomel , 1968
• Types of Shape , 1969, extended edition 1991
• The Night Mirror , 1971
• Town and Country Matters , 1972
• Selected Poems , 1972
• The Head of the Bed , 1974
• Tales Told of the Fathers , 1975
• Reflections on Espionage , 1976
• Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems , 1978
• In Place , 1978
• Blue Wine and Other Poems , 1979
• Looking Ahead , 1982
• Powers of Thirteen: Poems , 1983
• A Hollander Garland , 1985
• In Time and Place , 1986
• Harp Lake: Poems , 1988
• Some Fugitives Take Cover , 1988
• Selected Poetry , 1993
• Tesserae and Other Poems , 1993
• Figurehead & Other Poems , Knopf 1999
• Picture Window , 2003
• A Draft of Light , 2008

As editor

• (with Harold Bloom ) The Wind and the Rain: An Anthology of Poems for Young People , 1961
• (with Harold Bloom) Selected Poems of Ben Jonson , 1961
• (with Anthony Hecht) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls , (with illustrations by Milton Glaser ), 1966
• Poems of Our Moment , 1968
• American Short Stories since 1945 , 1968
• Modern Poetry: Modern Essays in Criticism , 1968
• (with Frank Kermode ) The Oxford Anthology of English Literature , 1973
• (with Reuben Brower and Helen Vendler ) IA Richards : Essays in His Honor , 1973
• (with Irving Howe ) Literature as Experience , 1979
• Harold Bloom, The Poetics of Influence , 1988
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti , The Essential Rossetti (Foreword), 1990
• Edgar Lee Masters , Spoon River Anthology , 1992
• American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century , 1994
  • Volume 1: Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman
  • Volume 2: Herman Melville to Trumbull Tickney ; American Indian Poetry; Folk Songs and Spirituals
• Animal Poems , 1994
• The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art , 1995
• Garden Poems , 1996
• Committed to Memory: One Hundred Best Poems to Memorize , 1997
• Encyclopedia of American Poetry. The Nineteenth Century 1998
• Christmas Poems , 1999
• War Poems , 1999
• (with Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff) American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, two volumes , 2000
• Sonnets: From Dante to the Present , 2001
• (with Joanna Weber ) Words for Images , 2001
• American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse , 2003
• Poetry for Young People: American Poetry , (Illustrations by Sally Wern Comport ), 2004
• Poems Bewitched and Haunted , 2005

Theoretical writings

• The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry, 1500-1700 , 1961, reprint 1993
• Images of Voice , 1969.
• An Entertainment for Elizabeth, Being a Masque of the Seven Motions; or, Terpsichore Unchained , 1969
• The Immense Parade on Supererogation Day , 1972
• Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form , 1975, 2nd edition 1985
• The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After , 1981
• Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse , 1981
• Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language , 1988
• (with Giuliano Briganti ) William Bailey , 1991
• The Work of Poetry , 1997
• The Poetry of Everyday Life , 1998
• Poetry and Music , 2003

swell

• Poetry Foundation - John Hollander
• The Best American Poetry - John Hollander
• Academy of American Poets - John Hollander