John Hollander

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.

Poems Bewitched and Haunted

In Spring in the Garden, Edna St. Vincent Millay writes: "Ah, cannot the curled shoots of the larkspur that you loved so, / Cannot the spiny poppy that no winter kills / Instruct you how to return through the thawing ground and thin snow / Into this April sun that is driving the mist between the hills?"

Garden Poems

A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After (Quantum Book)

The Figure of Echo

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. In this substantially expanded and revised edition, Hollander adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that exhibit the patterns he has described.

A Guide to English Verse

Rhyme's Reason

From the East and West, from ancient times to modern, from Mei Yu Ch'en on swarming mosquitoes to William Cullen Bryant's solitary waterfowl and Rainer Maria Rilke's enchanted gazelle, from Auden on cats and dogs to James Merrill's vision of the octopus, here are 136 poems that provide access to literature's lyric zoo.

Animal Poems

Tesserae and Other Poems

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. First published in 1974, the book is now reprinted with a substantial introduction by the author that elaborates on the genesis of the poem, the literary figures who inspired some of the characters, the poem's reception, and other matters. Reviews of the earlier edition: "These poems can be read and admired for their fluidity, their wonderful diversity of significance. . . . Many delights."-Richard Poirier, Los Angeles Times "Hollander's arch and subtle long poem allegorizes the mirror closeness between raveller and unraveller."-George Steiner, New Yorker "Hollander explores with wit and virtuosity the pleasures of poetry (encipherment) and the trials of the workaday world (one's 'cover.') . . . A rich, intelligent poem . . . a special pleasure for those with an ear for allusions, parodies, and puns."-Library Journal

The Question of Cupcake

Reflections on Espionage

Provides an overview of Hollander's career with selections from eleven previous volumes of poetry published between 1958 and 1988

Selected Poetry

Harold Bloom

Frank Kermode

Lionel Trilling

Romantic poetry and prose

The Oxford Anthology of English Literature

Emma Lazarus

Provides a collection of poems by the American Jewish author, including "The New Colossus," "Phantasies," and "1492."

Selected Poems

Demonstrating a poet's imaginative ear and a critic's range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the "melodious guile" of poetry, explaining how poems frame parables about themselves. Hollander considers works by Spenser, Milton, Wordsworth, chiefly, plus a range of other poets including Chaucer, Keats, Rossetti, Tennyson, Frost, Stevens, and Auden. He also presents certain poems of his own, showing how they anticipate and exemplify the observations contained in this volume.

Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

Melodious Guile

Two Senses of Poetic Form

Vision and Resonance

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. “How lucky the young poet who discovers this wisest and most lighthearted of manuals.”—James Merrill “Marvelously comprehensive, clarifying and useful, and a delight to read.”—John Reardon, Los Angeles Times Book Review “A virtuoso performance and a mandatory text for poetry readers and practioners alike.”—ALA Booklist

A Guide to English Verse, Fourth Edition

An anthology of poems, most of them by English poets of earlier centuries, which reflect the symbolic overtones and moods of the seasons.

An Anthology of Poems for Young People

The Wind and the Rain

Eric L. Haralson

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The nineteenth century

Encyclopedia of American Poetry

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. His subjects include hack lyrics in popular music, the effect of setting poetry to music, how music works against enjambment in both metrical and free verse, and musical verse in the works of Donne, Shelley, Keats, and Tennyson, among others.

Poetry and Music

In Rhyme's Reason, a work that has already become a classic text, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveyed the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and wittily self-descriptive example.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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