Poems Bewitched and Haunted (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1400043883 ISBN 13: 9781400043880

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 2005

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A ghoulish anthology of fantastical and ghostly poems by some of the world's finest poets 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. 15,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor:

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.

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• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400043883
• ISBN 13: 9781400043880
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Herausgeber: Hollander John