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Picture Window
by Hollander, John
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. First Paperback edition. Original wraps. Very good. 86p octavo, a very good copy in pale blue printed wraps. Inscribed by Hollander to......
Synopsis
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 . From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title
- Picture Window
- Author
- Hollander, John
- Format/Binding
- Original wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- 1
- Edition
- First Paperback edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
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