HOLLANDER, JOHN

HOLLANDER, JOHN (1928– ), U.S. poet, literary critic, and editor. His precise, often ironic and intricate verse was published in several volumes, among them A Crackling of Thorns (1958), Tales Told of the Fathers (1975), Blue Wine and Other Poems (1979), Harp Lake (1988), Tesserae: & Other Poems (1993), and Figurehead & Other Poems (1999). He also published critical works, such as Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (1981) and Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language (1988). Among the works he has edited are The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (with Frank Kermode, 2 vols., 1975); and American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (2 vols., 1993).