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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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