John Hollander
Biography
Hollander studied at Columbia University and Indiana University and was a 1954-1957 Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. After two years at Connecticut College, where he taught from 1959 at Yale University, most recently as Sterling Professor Emeritus. He was also a 1966-1977 Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
His first book of poems A Crackling of Thorns was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Series of Award. In all, he published more than a dozen books of poetry. He also wrote several works of literary theory and published from publisher works of authors as varied as Ben Jonson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Great recognition was published in 1994, his two-volume anthology American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. With Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, Marjorie Perloff, and he drew up the supplementary volume American Poetry: The Twentieth Century ( 2000).
Furthermore, Hollander also emerged as a children's book author and has worked with composers such as Milton Babbitt, George Perle and Hugo Weisgall. He was, inter alia, with the Bollingen Prize for poetry (1983, together with Anthony Hecht ), the Levinson Prize and the Shaughnessy Medal of the Modern Language Association and was a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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, revised 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 in 1982
- Powers of Thirteen: Poems, 1983
- 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
- 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
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 supererogatory 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