Committed to Memory by John Hollander
Committed to Memory is a joyous collection of the best poems to memorise for verse lovers of all ages. Including both old favourites and new gems, this selection brings back the lost art of memorisation and recalls best-loved childhood poems.
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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| ISBN 13 | 9781885983152 |
| ISBN 10 | 1885983158 |
| Title | Committed to Memory |
| Author | John Hollander |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Turtle Point Press |
| Year published | 2000-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 202 |
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