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John Ciardi

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John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, and recorded commentaries for National Public Radio.

Books

The Inferno
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi
The Inferno. Translated in Verse by John Ciardi, Etc
The Inferno. Translated in Verse by John Ciardi, Etc
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi
How Does a Poem Mean?
How Does a Poem Mean?
John Ciardi, Miller Williams
The Purgatorio
The Purgatorio
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi
Selected Poems
Selected Poems
John Ciardi
John Ciardi
The monster den, or Look what happened at my house-and to it
The monster den, or Look what happened at my house-and to it
John Ciardi
Limericks, Too Gross
Limericks, Too Gross
Isaac Asimov, John Ciardi
I Met a Man
I Met a Man
John Ciardi
Homeward to America
Homeward to America
John Ciardi
Manner of Speaking
Manner of Speaking
John Ciardi
The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks
The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks
John Ciardi
John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan
John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan
John Ciardi
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
John Ciardi
The Inferno
The Inferno
Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi
A Browser's Dictionary
A Browser's Dictionary
John Ciardi
Someone Could Win a Polar Bear
Someone Could Win a Polar Bear
John Ciardi
Echoes
Echoes
John Ciardi
John Ciardi
John Ciardi
John Ciardi, William White
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
The Collected Poems of John Ciardi
John Ciardi
Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays on Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry (c)
Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays on Reading, Writing, and Teaching Poetry (c)
John Ciardi

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