Frank Lentricchia (born 1940) is an American literary critic, novelist, and film teacher. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Duke University in 1966 and 1963 respectively after receiving a B.A. from Utica College in 1962. Lentricchia is currently a literature and film studies professor at Duke University.
The Gaiety of Language : An Essay On The Radical Poetics Of W. B. Yeats And Wallace Stevens (1968)Robert Frost: Modern Poetics and the Landscapes of Self (1975)Robert Frost: A Bibliography, 1913 – 1974 (1976) with Melissa Christensen LentricchiaAfter the New Criticism (1980) ISBN 978-0-226-47198-3Criticism and Social Change (1983) ISBN 978-0-226-47200-3Ariel and the Police: Michel Foucault, William James, Wallace Stevens (1989)New Essays on White Noise (1991) editor, with Emory Elliot, on White Noise by Don DeLilloIntroducing Don DeLillo (1991) editorModernist Quartet (1994)Critical Terms for Literary Study (1995) with Thomas McLaughlin ISBN 978-0-226-47203-4Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11 (2003) editor, with Stanley HauerwasClose Reading: The Reader (2003) editor, with Andrew DuboisCrimes of Art and Terror (2003) with Jody McAuliffe ISBN 978-0-226-47205-8The Edge of Night. A Confession (1994)Johnny Critelli and The Knifemen: Two Novels (1996)The Music of the Inferno (1999) novelLucchesi and the Whale (2001)The Book of Ruth (2005)The Sadness of Antonioni (2011) ISBN 9781438439129The Portable Lentricchia (2012) ISBN 978-1-59954-040-5The Accidental Pallbearer (2012) ISBN 978-1-61219-171-3The Dog Killer of Utica (2014)The Morelli Thing (2015) 
