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1	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition Volume I: The Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor), J B Trapp (Editor) In one volume. This collection, published in six individual volumes or in this two-volume edition, presents the finest English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with introductory matter and extensive annotation by six of the foremost critics and scholars writing today. see all copies from $3.83! new only from $17.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse more books like this by Professor John Hollander In his classic text Rhyme's Reason the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially expanded and revised edition, Hollander adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
3	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 to the Present more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode, Professor John Hollander, Professor Harold Bloom see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.56! \| SVS
4	Rhymes Reason: A Guide to English Verse, New Enlarged Edition more books like this by Professor John Hollander In this witty handbook Hollander explains poetic form in the actual form in question. The entry on "sestina" is a sestina, "villanelle" is defined with a villanelle, and in turn each difficult form is rendered in an accessible, concrete example. Hollander also provides a more literary example of many of the forms, drawing models from throughout ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97!
5	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.01! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Christmas Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Professor J D McClatchy (Editor) Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems: Selected Poems more books like this by Emma Lazarus, Professor John Hollander (Editor) John Hollander presents a fresh selection of Emma Lazarus's powerful verse, including the iconic poem that welcomes visitors to the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus." see all copies from $3.61! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Best American Poetry more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Introduction by), David Lehman (Foreword by) The appearance of The Best American Poetry every September is an eagerly awaited rite of fall -- as evidenced by soaring sales and terrific reviews. The popularity of the series is "ample proof that poetry is thriving" (The Orlando Sentinel), and this year's volume will dazzle and delight, instruct and inspire. Under the guiding vision of master ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) see all copies from $5.00! new only from $10.22!
10	American Poetry: The 19th Century Vol. 1: Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $12.29! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	American Poetry: The 19th Century Vol 2: Volume 2 Melville Stickney Amern Indian Poetry Folk Songs Spirituals more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $10.73! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Marriage Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Kevin Young (Editor) 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake more books like this by Professor John Hollander This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own alienation and sense of purposelessness as a secret agent -- a metaphor for a human existence committed to ordering, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic "The Devil's Dictionary" quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, "American Wits" gathers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.78! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Blue Wine and Other Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander John Hollander's "Blue Wine and Other Poems," his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, "Spectral Emanations," shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career. Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Words for Images more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Joanna Weber (Editor) Twenty two Yale Alumni wax poetic on favorite works. A good gift idea in an unsusual vertical format. see all copies from $6.64! new only from $50.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Types of Shape, New, Expanded Edition more books like this by Professor John Hollander This book is a collection of pattern poems - poems whose printed format presents a picture of some familiar object that is also the subject of the text. Patterned poems, also called shaped verse, are part of a long tradition that extends from Alexandrian Greek poets to Lewis Carroll and beyond. The poems in this book, written by the poet John ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Frost: Poems more books like this by Robert Frost, Professor John Hollander (Editor) From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall", "Birches", and "The Road Not Taken", as well as poems less famous but equally ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume VI: Modern British Literature more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor) This volume includes Shaw's St. Joan, twenty poems by Hardy, thirty by Yeats, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Lawrence's The Prussian Officer, the complete St. Mawr, Pornography and Obscenity, and eleven poems. It also features Joyce's The Dead, excerpts from The Portrait of the Artist, Ulysses, and Finnegan's Wake, and works by T. S. Eliot, ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $40.96!
20 view cover	A Draft of Light: Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander A glorious new collection from one of our most distinguished poets. Here are poems that explore the ways in which ordinary objects open doors to the more hidden, subconscious truths of our inner selves: a bird of "countless colors" calls to mind "the echo . . . / of an inner event / From my forgotten past"; a subway bee sting conjures up quick ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $10.25! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	O. Henry more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Miles Hyman (Illustrator) With this handsomely illustrated edition of O. Henry's best, children can now enjoy all the surprising twists and turns of six favorite tales by the master of the short story: "The Gift of the Magi," "Two Thanksgiving-Day Gentlemen," "The Last Leaf," "Mammon and the Archer," "After Twenty Years", and "A Retrieved Reformation." Noted scholar John ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
22 view cover	I Speak of the City: Poems of New York more books like this by Stephen Wolf (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Foreword by) "I Speak of the City" is the most extensive collection of poems ever assembled about New York. Beginning with an early piece by Jacob Steendam (from when the city was called New Amsterdam) and continuing through poems written in the aftermath of 9/11, this anthology features voices from more than a dozen countries. It includes two Nobel Prize ... see all copies from $12.39! new only from $21.21! \| SVS
23	Celestial Pantomime more books like this by George Lawler, Justus George Lawler, Professor John Hollander (Introduction by) New revision of the work originally published in 1979 by Yale University Press. see all copies from $3.73! new only from $5.59! \| first editions
24 view cover	Sonnets: From Dante to the Present more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor) The sonnet form has expressed multiple passions for hundreds of years. This anthology, edited by Hollander--both a celebrated poet and a scholar of verse forms--presents scores of examples, including the definitive works of Shakespeare, Petrarch, and Spenser, as well as playful and defiant examples by a range of 20th century practitioners ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $7.73! \| SVS
25 view cover	Poems Bewitched and Haunted more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor) From Homer to Horace, Pope to Poe, Randall Jerrell to James Merrill, the author draws on 3,000 years of poetic forays into the supernatural to assemble this ghoulish literary parade. see all copies from $6.50! new only from $7.49! \| first editions \| SVS

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