EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1959
M.A., Columbia University, 1952
B.A., Columbia University, 1950
INTERESTS:
16th and 17th century poetry; 19th century American poetry;
poetics; art and literature; the writing of verse; Spenser; Milton; rhetoric; 20th-century poetry
John Hollander is a poet and critic whose field of interest is poetry
generally as well as in the early modern period. He teaches the writing
of verse as well as both the professional and the unprofessional reading
and interpretation of it. In his teaching and writing he has explored
relations between art and literature as well as between music and poetry.
Most recent among his seventeen books of poetry are Figurehead
(1999), Tesserae (1993), Selected Poetry (1993) a reissue
of his earlier Reflections on Espionage (2000). His critical books
include The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry,
1500-1700 (1961); Vision and Resonance (1975); The Figure
of Echo (1981); Rhyme's Reason (1981) [3rd expanded edition
2000]; Melodious Guile (1988) The Gazer's Spirit, (1995)
The Work of Poetry (1997);The Poetry of Everyday Life (1998).
Among twenty books edited, he is co-general editor of The Oxford Anthology
of English Literature (1972), poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1990),
Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology (1992) and American
Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (2 vols.) (New York, The Library of
America, 1993).
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Advanced Verse Writing
