John Hollander was an American poet and literary critic.
12 Facts About John Hollander
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John Hollander was born in Manhattan, to Muriel and Franklin Hollander, Jewish immigrant parents.
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John Hollander was the elder brother of Michael Hollander, a distinguished professor of architecture at Pratt Institute.
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John Hollander attended the Bronx High School of Science and then Columbia College of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, and overlapped with Allen Ginsberg, Jason Epstein, Richard Howard, Robert Gottlieb, Roone Arledge, Max Frankel, Louis Simpson and Steven Marcus.
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John Hollander died at Branford, Connecticut, on August 17,2013, at the age of 83.
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John Hollander was considered to have technical poetic powers without equal, as exampled by his "Powers of Thirteen" poem, an extended sequence of 169 unrhymed 13-line stanzas with 13 syllables in each line.
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John Hollander composed poems as "graphematic" emblems and epistolary poems, and, as a critic, offered telling insights into the relationship between words and music and sound in poetry, and in metrical experimentation, and 'the lack of a theory of graphic prosody'.
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John Hollander influenced poets Todd LaRoche and Karl Kirchwey, who both studied under John Hollander at Yale.
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John Hollander taught Kirchwey that it was possible to build a life around the task of writing poetry.
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Kirchwey recalled John Hollander's passion: 'Since he is a poet himself.
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John Hollander served in the following positions, among others: member of the board, Wesleyan University Press ; editorial assistant for poetry, Partisan Review and a contributing editor, of Harper's Magazine.
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John Hollander's poetry has been set to music by Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, and others; in 2007 he collaborated with the Eagles, allowing them use of his poem "An Old Fashioned Song" to create the song "No More Walks in the Wood".