John Hollander
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Language
English
Description
Poet John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse in this classic text, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In new essays for this fourth edition, J.D. McClatchy and Richard Wilbur each offer a personal take on why the book has played such an important role in the education of young poets and student scholars.
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
This varied and far-ranging volume contains a substantial selection from the work of one of our most distinguished poets. From his first book, A Crackling of Thorns, chosen by W.H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, to his most recent, Harp Lake (1988), Selected Poetry provides an overview of the brilliant career in poetry celebrated by John Hollander's appointment as a MacArthur Fellow. It includes work from eleven volumes,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
One of the most gifted of W.H. Auden's choices for the Yale Series of Younger Poets, Hollander has pursued the wide range and metrical brilliance of Auden's own poetry, so that this new book exhibits both a large compass of subject matter (from philosophical matters to personal narrative) and, as usual, some astonishing meditations on paintings - here, by Charles Sheeler, Rene Magritte, and Edward Hopper. By turns witty, touching, profound, mocking,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
"The first new volume in five years by the distinguished poet-teacher and MacArthur Fellow, of whose last collection, Harp Lake, Harold Bloom has written, "It confirms his authentic eminence, comparable in my judgment to that of Merrill, Ashbery, Ammons and only a few others in his own generation of American poets.""--BOOK JACKET. "The long and very beautiful title sequence, "Tesserae," winds its way through the book, embracing a varied and fascinating...
10) The sonnets
Author
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare's complete sonnets in one beautiful edition. Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love. Some appear to be written to a young man, some to a woman. And although the poems are full of mystery - why did Shakespeare write them, and to whom? -...
11) O. Henry stories
Author
Language
English
Description
A collection fo 35 stories by William Sidney Porter, whose hallmark as a master story-teller is the surprise ending.
14) Frost
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great.--
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes...
16) Selected poems
Author
Series
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
John Hollander presents a fresh selection of Emma Lazarus's powerful verse, including the iconic poem that welcomes visitors to the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus."
19) War poems
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In What the Bullet Sang by Bret Harte, one reads: "O joy of creation / To be! / O rapture to fly / And be free! / Be the battle lost or won, / Though its smoke shall hide the sun, / I shall find my love, --the one / Born for me!"