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Name
  
Richard Poirier


Role
  
Writer

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Died
  
August 15, 2009, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

Education
  
Harvard University (1960), Amherst College (1949)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada

Books
  
Robert Frost: The Work of K, A World Elsewhere: The Plac, Poetry and Pragmatism, The Performing Self, Trying It Out in America

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Richard Poirier (born Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1925, died New York City, August 15, 2009) was an American literary critic.

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He co-founded the Library of America, and served as chairman of its board. He was the Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature at Rutgers University. He was also the editor of Raritan, a literary quarterly, and an editor of Partisan Review. He was series editor of Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards from 1961 to 1966.

In 1968, he signed the “Writers and Editors War Tax Protest” pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.

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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 Reader's Approach to Literary Criticism (1963) editor with Reuben A. Brower
  • A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature (1966)
  • American Literature: Volume Two (Little, Brown 1970) editor with William L. Vance
  • The Oxford Reader: Varieties of Contemporary Discourse (1971) editor with Frank Kermode
  • The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life (1971)
  • Mailer (Fontana Modern Masters, 1972)
  • Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (1977)
  • The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections (Random House, 1987) ISBN 0-394-50140-3
  • 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)
  • References

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