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Poems Bewitched and Haunted Hardcover - 2005

Name: Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
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Author: Hollander, John
ISBN: 9781400043880

by John Hollander (Editor)

From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jerrell to James Merrill, the author draws on 3,000 years of poetic forays into the supernatural to assemble this ghoulish literary parade.

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From the publisher

John Hollander is the author of seventeen previous books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He has written eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme’s Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry, and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls.

Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He has taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is currently Sterling Professor emeritus of English at Yale. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship .

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Title Poems Bewitched and Haunted
Author John Hollander (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Edition Later Printing
Pages 256
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Everyman's Library, North Clarendon, Vermont, U.S.A.
Date 2005-09-13
Features Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781400043880 / 1400043883
Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
Dimensions 6.44 x 4.42 x 0.76 in (16.36 x 11.23 x 1.93 cm)
Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
Library of Congress subjects Witches, Supernatural
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005046942
Dewey Decimal Code 808.819

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Ingram Advance, 09/01/2005, Page 104

About the author

JOHN HOLLANDER is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first, A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winning Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse and The Work of Poetry, and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among them The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983) Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls.

Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.