- Richard Poirier
Richard Poirier (born
Gloucester, Massachusetts , 1925) is an American literary critic. He lives in New York City.He is a co-founder of the "
Library of America ", and chairs its Board. He is also Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature (emeritus) atRutgers University , and the editor (emeritus) of Raritan, a literary quarterly.He is a past editor of "
Partisan Review ".Works
* "Stories British and American" (1953) with Jack Barry Ludwig
* "The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels" (1960)
* "In Defense of Reading : A Readers Approach to Literary Criticism" (1963) editor withReuben A.Brower
* "A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature" (1966)
* "American Literature: Volume Two" (Little, Brown 1970) editor withWilliam L. Vance
* "The Oxford Reader: Varieties of Contemporary Discourse" (1971) editor withFrank Kermode
* "The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life" (1971)
* "Norman Mailer" (1972)
* "Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing" (1977)
* "The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections" (Random House, 1987) ISBN 0394501403
* "Raritan Reading" (1990) editor
* "Ralph Waldo Emerson" (1990)
* "Poetry and Pragmatism" (1992)
* "Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays of Robert Frost" (Library of America , 1995) editor with Mark Richardson
* "Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances" (2003)External links
* [http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9443318 Biographical page]
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