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American Poetry 19th Century

By John Hollander

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9781138966574 | Routledge, July 31, 2016, cover price $47.95

The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

By Kenneth Gross (editor) and John Hollander

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9780226354279 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 5, 2016, cover price $29.00

Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize

Product Description: Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into tales, sonnets, songs, meditations and counsels. Published in partnership with The Academy of American Poets.

By Eavan Boland (editor)

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9781885983152 | Turtle Point Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Gathers poems by Matthew Arnold, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Langston Hughes, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost

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9781573226462 | Reprint edition (Riverhead Books, September 1, 1997), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A collection of English and American poems for memorization includes the works of Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, and Walt Whitman

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9781439579923 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into tales, sonnets, songs, meditations and counsels.

Poetry and Music

Product Description: Poetry and Music is a passionate and intellectually playful conversation across borders that rethreads long-severed bonds between the two art forms. Hollander's authoritative and accessible criticism guides us through the moments when both modes work in tandem-and leads us to ask why they only sometimes do so successfully...read more

By John Hollander

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9780415942133 | Routledge, May 1, 2016, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Poetry and Music is a passionate and intellectually playful conversation across borders that rethreads long-severed bonds between the two art forms.

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9780415942140 | Routledge, January 1, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Poetry and Music is a passionate and intellectually playful conversation across borders that rethreads long-severed bonds between the two art forms.

Tricks of the Light: New and Selected Poems

By Vicki Hearne and John Hollander (editor)

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9780226322414 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 2007, cover price $25.00

I Speak of the City: Poems of New York

Product Description: I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries...read more

By John Hollander (foreword by) and Stephen Wolf (editor)

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9780231140645 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York.

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9780231140652 | Columbia Univ Pr, September 4, 2007, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: I Speak of the City is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York.

O. Henry

Presents an illustrated collection of short stories, including the classics 'The Gift of the Magi,' 'Mammon and the Archer,' and 'The Last Leaf.'

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9781402709883 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, December 28, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Presents an illustrated collection of short stories, including the classics 'The Gift of the Magi,' 'Mammon and the Archer,' and 'The Last Leaf.

Library:

9781424218264 | Fitzgerald Books, January 1, 2007, cover price $30.77

Poems Bewitched And Haunted

A ghoulish anthology of fantastical and ghostly poems by some of the world's finest poets spans some three thousand years of literary explorations of the supernatural in works by Homer, Ovid, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Virgil, Charles Baudelaire, Randall Jarrell, and James Merrill, among others. 15,000 first printing.

By John Hollander (editor)

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9781400043880 | Everymans Library, September 13, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An anthology of fantastical and ghostly poems spans some three thousand years of literary explorations of the supernatural in works by Homer, Ovid, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Virgil, Charles Baudelaire, Randall Jarrell, and James Merrill, among others.

9781841597669 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2005, cover price $17.60 | About this edition: This is a series of small, handsome hardcover volumes devoted to the world's classic poets.

Emma Lazarus Selected Poems

Draws on the collections of the nineteenth-century Jewish-American poet from her early works, published in her teens, to her definitive writings in Songs of a Semite, in a volume that offers insight into her outspokenness against anti-Semitism, her commitment to social justice, and her thoughts about other works of literature.

By John Hollander (editor)

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9781931082778 | Library of America, April 7, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Provides a collection of poems by the American Jewish author, including 'The New Colossus,' 'Phantasies,' and '1492.

Picture Window: Poems

An inventive new collection of poetry by the author of Figurehead offers a series of playful and profound meditations on the reflective mind and the nature of perception, as well as observations on the passage of time as it is marked by the play of light and shadow across a surface. Reprint.

By John Hollander

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9781400040070 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A new collection of poems by the MacArthur Fellow uses varied poetic forms to provide meditations on the reflective mind, the passage of time, and the world of language.

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9780375710131 | Reprint edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 25, 2005), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: An inventive new collection of poetry by the author of Figurehead offers a series of playful and profound meditations on the reflective mind and the nature of perception, as well as observations on the passage of time as it is marked by the play of light and shadow across a surface.

American Poetry 19th Century 2: The Nineteenth Century

Gathers over 100 poems by 150 poets to reveal the distinctly American tradition of poetry that arose in the 19th century. A section is devoted to American Indian poetry in period translations.

By John Hollander (editor)

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9781579580346 | Routledge, November 11, 2004, cover price $445.00 | About this edition: Gathers over 100 poems by 150 poets to reveal the distinctly American tradition of poetry that arose in the 19th century.

Animal Poems: Poetry for Young People

Offers thirty-two poems about animals by various poets, including Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, and Vicki Hearne.

By John Hollander (editor) and Simona Mulazzani (illustrator)

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9781402709265 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers thirty-two poems about animals by various poets, including Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, and Vicki Hearne.

American Poetry

Provides more than twenty poems written by American poets, with brief introductory remarks.

By Sally Wern Comport (illustrator) and John Hollander (editor)

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9781402705175 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, March 28, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Provides more than twenty poems written by American poets, with brief introductory remarks.

American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse

A tour of the American light verse tradition includes pieces of sardonic verse and comic invention by such contributors as Ambrose Bierce, Kenneth Koch, T. S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ogden Nash.

By John Hollander (editor)

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9781931082495 | Library of America, October 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A tour of the American light verse tradition includes pieces of sardonic verse and comic invention by such contributors as Ambrose Bierce, Kenneth Koch, T.

Crossing Boundaries: The Art of Lee Waisler

Product Description: A look at this California artist who combines visual and philosophical elements into his art.

By John Hollander, Gayatri Patnaik, Arturo Schwarz, Margaret Sheffield and Sundaram Tagore

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9781890206345 | Mapin, February 1, 2003, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A look at this California artist who combines visual and philosophical elements into his art.

Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same: New Essays on Early Modern and Modern Poetry in Honor of John Hollander

Product Description: Original essays inspirited by Marlowe, Spenser, and Milton, Tennyson and the modern voices of Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill, show that, in an age in which historically-focused studies of verse frequently neglect the forms of poetry, lyric and epic poetry continue to be read and taught in ways that call attention to, and reaffirm, how and why literature matters...read more

By John Hollander (editor) and Jennifer Lewin (editor)

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9780845731437 | Beinecke Rare Book &, November 1, 2002, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Original essays inspirited by Marlowe, Spenser, and Milton, Tennyson and the modern voices of Allen Ginsberg, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill, show that, in an age in which historically-focused studies of verse frequently neglect the forms of poetry, lyric and epic poetry continue to be read and taught in ways that call attention to, and reaffirm, how and why literature matters.

Once Again, LA Fontaine: 60 More Fables

Collects sixty new translations of the French fabulist's stories, inspired by Aesop, designed to teach lessons and morals.

By John Hollander (foreword by), Jean De LA Fontaine, David Schorr (illustrator) and Norman R. Shapiro (trans)

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9780819564580 | Pap/com edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, November 29, 2001), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Collects sixty new translations of the French fabulist's stories, inspired by Aesop, designed to teach lessons and morals.

Words for Images: A Gallery of Poems

Product Description: Twenty two Yale Alumni wax poetic on favorite works. A good gift idea in an unsusual vertical format. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Hollander and Joanna Weber (editor)

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9780894670961 | Yale Univ Art Gallery, October 1, 2001, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Twenty two Yale Alumni wax poetic on favorite works.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century

Contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States. (view table of contents)

By Eric L. Haralson (editor) and John Hollander (editor)

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9781579582401 | Routledge, August 1, 2001, cover price $240.00 | About this edition: Contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century.

Rhymes Reason: A Guide to English Verse

Product Description: Poems by the author complement a guide to writing English verse, surveying the forms and patterns of Old English and looking at an assortment of contemporary styles of free verse (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Hollander

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9780300043068, titled "Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse" | Enl sub edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1989), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In his classic text Rhyme's Reason the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example.

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9780300088328, titled "Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse" | 3 edition (Yale Univ Pr, February 8, 2001), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Poems by the author complement a guide to writing English verse, surveying the forms and patterns of Old English and looking at an assortment of contemporary styles of free verse

9780300043075 | Yale Univ Pr, September 10, 1989, cover price $10.95 | also contains Death of a Superhero | About this edition: In his classic text Rhyme's Reason the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example.

9780300027402, titled "Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse" | Yale Univ Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Poems by the author complement a guide to writing English verse, surveying the forms and patterns of Old English and looking at an assortment of contemporary styles of free verse

Sonnets: From Dante to the Present

A pocket anthology of sonnets includes Milton's 'On His Blindness,' :Leda and the Swan' by Yeats, Frost's 'The Oven Bird,' and other works by Shakespeare, Sidney, Spenser, Dante, Petrarch, Wordsworth, Keats, and modern practitioners such as Wallace Stevens, James Merrill, and Elizabeth Bishop. 12,500 first printing.

By John Hollander (editor)

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9780375411779 | Everymans Library, March 1, 2001, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: An anthology of sonnets includes Milton's 'On His Blindness,' Yeats' 'Leda and the Swan, ' Frost's 'The Oven Bird,' and other works by Shakespeare, Dante, Keats, and Petrarch.

Figurehead: And Other Poems

Presents a lively, richly varied, and technically complex collection of poetry that encompasses a wide variety of subjects--ranging from philosophy and personal reflections to meditations on paintings--by the critically acclaimed author of Tesserae. Reprint.

By John Hollander

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9780375404849 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems that encompass a wide variety of subjects, from philosophy and personal reflections to meditations on paintings

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9780375704338 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 2000), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems that encompass a wide variety of subjects, from philosophy and personal reflections to meditations on paintings

Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake

Product Description: This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own alienation and sense of purposelessness as a secret agent-a metaphor for a human existence committed to ordering, deciphering, and making sense of a world of random signs...read more

By John Hollander

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9780300079661 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies.

Christmas Poems

An enchanting and witty compendium of Yuletide poetry includes the lyrics to familiar carols, Moore's 'A Visit from St. Nicholas,' and other great works by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, Dorothy Parker, Robert Graves, and Philip

By John Hollander (editor) and J. D. McClatchy (editor)

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9780375407895 | Everymans Library, November 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: An enchanting and witty compendium of Yuletide poetry includes the lyrics to familiar carols, Moore's 'A Visit from St.

Henry James: Complete Stories 1864-1874

The complete stories of Henry James spans the creative life of the writer and includes his first twenty-four published stories, including thirteen never collected by him. (view table of contents)

By David Bromwich (editor), John Hollander (editor), Henry James, Edward W. Said (editor), Jean Strouse (editor) and William L. Vance (editor)

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9781883011703 | Library of America, October 1, 1999, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Gathers James' first twenty-four published stories, which deal with the impact of the Civil War, a spoiled child, an arrogant businessman, and the compromises forced by social conventions

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