John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American poet and literary critic. Events 306 - Maxentius is proclaimed Roman Emperor. 312 - Battle of Milvian Bridge: Constantine Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The City of New York The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A poet is a person who writes Poetry. Etymology From the Ancient greek: ποιέω, poieō: "I make or compose" The word critic comes from the Greek el κριτικός ( el-Latn kritikós) "able to discern" which in turn derives from the word ^[1] As of 2007 he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University. A Sterling Professorship is the highest academic rank at Yale University, awarded to a tenured faculty member considered one of the best in his or her field Previously he taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Connecticut College is a selective coeducational private liberal arts college located in New London Connecticut. Hunter College High School|Hunter College Elementary School Hunter College of the City University of New York is a senior college of the City University of New York The City University of New York (CUNY Acronym ˈkjuːni is the public University system of New York City.

He attended Columbia University where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, and had Allen Ginsberg as one of his classmates. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. Mark Van Doren ( June 13, 1894 &ndash December 10, 1972) was an American Pulitzer Prize -winning poet and critic Lionel Trilling (born Lionel Mordechai 4 July 1905 &ndash 5 November 1975 was an American Literary critic, author and teacher Irwin Allen Ginsberg (ˈgɪnzbɝg (June 3 1926 &ndash April 5 1997 was an American Poet. After graduating, he supported himself for a while writing liner notes for classical music albums before returning to obtain a Ph. D. in literature. ^[2]

Hollander has been a resident of Woodbridge, Connecticut since the late 1980s. Woodbridge is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. He has served as a judge for several high school recitation contests, and says he enjoys working with students on their poetry and teaching it. He stresses the importance of hearing poems out loud: "A good poem satisfies the ear. It creates a story or picture that grabs you, informs you and entertains you. "^[3]

He is known also for his translations from Yiddish. Yiddish (yi [[wiktייִדיש ייִדיש]] yidish or yi [[wiktאידיש אידיש]] idish, literally "Jewish" is a nonterritorial High

Hollander usually writes his poems on a computer, but if inspiration strikes him when he's away from it, "I've been known to start poems on napkins and scraps of paper, too. ^[3]

Contents 1 Awards and honors 2 Works 3 References 4 External links

Awards and honors

• 2006: Appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut^[4] (term ends in 2011)^[3]
• 2006: Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Prize
• 2002: Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement
• 1990: MacArthur Fellowship
• 1983: Bollingen Prize for Powers of Thirteen. Events French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon. A Poet Laureate is a Poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for State occasions and other government events Events French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon. Events March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the The Philolexian Society of Columbia University is one of the oldest collegiate literary societies in the United States and the oldest student group at Columbia Events Allen Ginsberg crowned "Majelis King" in Prague on May Day Works published in English Australia The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D Events Works published in English Australia Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor The Bollingen Prize, which is presently awarded every two years by Beinecke Library of Yale University, is a prestigious literary honor bestowed on an American Poet
• 1979: elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature
• 1958: Yale Series of Young Poets for his first book of poems, A Crackling of Thorns, chosen by W. H. Auden. Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member organization whose goal is to "foster assist and sustain excellence" in American Literature, Events Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities April 18 &mdash Ezra Pound 's indictment Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973 ˈwɪstən ˈhjuː ˈɔːdən who signed his works W

Works

• A Crackling of Thorns (1958) poems
• The Untuning of the Sky (1961)
• The Wind and the Rain (1961) editor with Harold Bloom
• Movie-Going (1962) poems
• Visions from the Ramble (1965) poems
• Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1997) with Anthony Hecht
• Types of Shape (1968) poems
• Images of Voice (1970) criticism
• The Night Mirror (1971) poems
• Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) poems
• Vision and Resonance (1975) criticism
• Reflections on Espionage (1976) poems
• Spectral Emanations (1978) poems
• Blue Wine (1979) poems
• The Figure of Echo (1981) criticism
• Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (1981) criticism
• Powers of Thirteen (1983) poems
• In Time and Place (1986) poems
• Harp Lake (1988) poems
• Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language (1988)
• Tesserae and Other Poems (1993)
• Selected Poetry (1993)
• Animal Poems (1994) poems
• The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art (1995) criticism
• The Work of Poetry (1997) criticism
• Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) poems
• Picture Window (2003)
• The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, editor
• Poems Bewitched and Haunted (2005) editor
• A Draft of Light (2008), poems (due out in May)
• Sonnets. Events Brazilian manifesto for concrete poetry which focuses on visual and other sensory qualities April 18 &mdash Ezra Pound 's indictment Events Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck Events Sylvia Plath suffers a miscarriage Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop buy a secondhand printing press and start Burning Deck Harold Bloom' (born July 11, 1930) is a Literary critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a time when their reputations Events Writers in the Soviet Union this year were allowed to publish criticism of Joseph Stalin and were given more freedom generally although many were severely Events Meic Stephens founds Poetry Wales Russian poet Anna Akhmatova was allowed to travel outside the Soviet Union Events January 20 &mdash Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem "Of History and Hope" at President Clinton's inauguration Anthony Evan Hecht, ( January 16 1923 &ndash October 20 2004) was an American Poet. Events The Belfast Group, a grouping of poets in Belfast, Northern Ireland which was started in 1963 in poetry, lapsed in 1966 Events release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear Events This Magazine founded by Robert Grenier and Barrett Watten The Canterbury Tales, Events With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned Events With the 1974, fall of the dictatorship in Greece, poets authors and intellectuals who had fled after the coup of 1967 returned Events Two poems written in 1965 by Mao Zedong just before the Cultural Revolution including "Two Birds A Dialogue" are published on January 1 Events L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, Events The Kenyon Review is restarted by Kenyon College 10 years after the original publication was closed Events Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine published First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published Events Final issue of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine published First issue of Conjunctions literary journal published Events Works published in English Australia Les Murray, The People's Otherworld, winner of the 1984 Kenneth Slessor Events New American Writing, an annual literary magazine concentrating on poetry is founded in Chicago Illinois. Events The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year Events The first annual The Best American Poetry volume is published this year Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events January 20 &mdash Maya Angelou reads "On the Pulse of Morning" at the inauguration of President Bill Clinton T Events Allen Ginsberg sells his papers to Stanford University for $1 million Events February 16 &mdash Announcement that 300 poems by ST Coleridge have been discovered February 17 &mdash Sotheby's Events January 20 &mdash Miller Williams of Arkansas reads his poem "Of History and Hope" at President Clinton's inauguration Events July 1 &mdash Scotland's Parliament opened with the singing of Robert Burns' "A Man's a Man For A'That" instead of "God Save Events January 29 &mdash Poet Dana Gioia, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full time becomes Events October 7 &mdash Celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the first reading of Allen Ginsberg Events Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land if different substantially revised works listed From Dante to the present, Everyman's library pocket poets.

References

External links

• Brief biography
• John Hollander at Random House
• Interview with John Hollander

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