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Marriage Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
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Marriage Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series) Hardcover - 1997

by John Hollander

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A sparking collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony--courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Ovid and Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn.

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Everyman's Library, 1997-04-29. Hardcover. New.
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  • Title Marriage Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)
  • Author John Hollander
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Everyman's Libra
  • Condition New
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Everyman's Library, New York
  • Date 1997-04-29
  • Features Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0679455159_new
  • ISBN 9780679455158 / 0679455159
  • Weight 0.51 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.52 x 4.5 x 0.81 in (16.56 x 11.43 x 2.06 cm)
  • Themes
    • Event: Wedding
    • Holiday: Valentine's Day
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Marriage
  • Dewey Decimal Code 808.819

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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 .

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sparking collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony--courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Ovid and Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn.

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About the author

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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