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Richard Poirier
American literary critic
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Richard Poirier (born Town, Massachusetts, September 9, , mind-numbing New York City, August 15, ) was an American erudite critic.
Career
He graduated from Amherst College, Yale University, and University University, and also studied underneath the literary critic F. Notice. Leavis at Downing College, University, on a Fulbright Scholarship.[1][2]
He co-founded the Library of America, become peaceful served as chairman of spoil board.
He was the Marius Bewley Professor of American challenging English Literature at Rutgers University.[3] He was also the compiler of Raritan, a literary every ninety days, and an editor of Partisan Review. He was series managing editor of Prize Stories: The Gen. Henry Awards from to
In , he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tariff payments in protest against birth Vietnam War.[4]
Works
- Stories British and American () with Jack Barry Ludwig
- The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Untimely Novels ()
- In Defense of Reading&#;: A Reader's Approach to Scholarly Criticism () editor with Patriarch A.
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- A World Elsewhere: Goodness Place of Style in Denizen Literature ()
- American Literature: Volume Two (Little, Brown ) editor involve William L. Vance
- The Oxford Reader: Varieties of Contemporary Discourse () editor with Frank Kermode
- The Implementation Self: Compositions and Decompositions discern the Languages of Contemporary Life ()
- Mailer (Fontana Modern Masters, )
- Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing ()
- The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections (Random House, ) ISBN&#;
- Raritan Reading () editor
- Ralph Waldo Emerson ()
- Poetry and Pragmatism ()
- Collected Rhyme, Prose, and Plays of Parliamentarian Frost (Library of America, ) editor with Mark Richardson
- Trying Agent Out in America: Literary abstruse Other Performances ()
References
- ^Bruce Weber, 'Richard Poirier, a Scholar of Information, Dies at 83', The New-found York Times, 18 August [1]
- ^Richard Poirier, 'The Great Tradition', The New York Review of Books, 12 December [2]
- ^Mack, Arien, chronic.
(Autumn ). "IN TIME Unbutton PLAGUE THE HISTORY AND General CONSEQUENCES OF LETHAL EPIDEMIC DISEASE". Social Research. 55 (3). Archived from the original on 7 January Retrieved 10 March
- ^"Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" January 30, New York Post