John Ciardi
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American poet, professor, translator
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- Bachelors English Tufts University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, and recorded commentaries for National Public Radio.
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- Fast and Slow (1975) (208)
- How Does a Poem Mean (1975) (52)
- The Riddle of Emily Dickinson (1951) (25)
- Mid-century American poets (1950) (12)
- Manner of speaking (1972) (11)
- College for Women (1956) (10)
- A Second Browser's Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language (1980) (6)
- The reason for the pelican (1959) (3)
- The Form Is the Experience (1961) (3)
- The man who sang the sillies. (1961) (2)
- You Read to Me, I'll Read to You (1987) (2)
- A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language (1980) (2)
- The selected letters of John Ciardi (1991) (2)
- John J. Plenty and Fiddler Dan (1963) (2)
- Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry (1989) (1)
- Nurses as writers. (1970) (1)
- Poetry : a closer look; programed instruction with selected poems (1963) (1)
- Definition of a Wit (1956) (1)
- Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language (1987) (1)
- 22. Dickinson’s I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died (1956) (1)
- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri@@@The Divine Comedy@@@The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine. Cantica I, Inferno@@@The Inferno (1957) (1)
- Fast and Slow: Poems for Advanced Children and Beginning Parents (1975) (1)
- Poets and Prizes (1950) (1)
- I marry you : a sheaf of love poems (1958) (0)
- Eastern Michigan University Presents Poet John Ciardi, 1964 (1964) (0)
- The Monster Den: or Look What Happened at My House — and to It (1991) (0)
- On Flunking a Nice Boy out of School (1973) (0)
- My favorite foodles (1993) (0)
- The Poetry of John Ciardi (1961) (0)
- Toward a Solitary Joy (1961) (0)
- Echoes: Poems Left Behind (1989) (0)
- At Cocktails: For Fletcher and Inga (1958) (0)
- A grossery of limericks (1981) (0)
- Getting to Dante (1958) (0)
- Lines while Walking Home from a Party on Charles Street (1954) (0)
- A Poetry Chronicle-Part I (1963) (0)
- Timing composite video signals using digital Resamplens (1995) (0)
- The longest walk in the universe (1965) (0)
- The king who saved himself from being saved (1965) (0)
- Achievement in American Poetry: 1900-1950@@@The Background of Modern Poetry (1952) (0)
- Nurses as writers. (1971) (0)
- The wolf is the at the door : tales of courage (1993) (0)
- Editorial: Summer specials in education. (1974) (0)
- This Strangest Everything (1966) (0)
- Among the Nightingales (1956) (0)
- Scrappy the pup (1960) (0)
- SUMMER SPECIALS IN EDUCATION (1974) (0)
- In The Stoneworks (1961) (0)
- The achievement of John Ciardi : a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical introduction (1969) (0)
- Poems: North and South@@@As if@@@The Second Man and Other Poems@@@Birthdays from the Ocean@@@The Salt Garden (1956) (0)
- Limericks: Too Gross (1978) (0)
- Little Boy Blue and the Beautiful Rose (1952) (0)
- Poems of Love and Marriage (1989) (0)
- Bathtub Voyages: Tales of Adventure (1993) (0)
- Witches three: Conjure wife (1952) (0)
- Just a Bit of This and That (1958) (0)
- BRIEFER MENTION (1961) (0)
- What Is a Poem (1959) (0)
- The Colossus in Quicksand (1958) (0)
- Making Book on the Language (1981) (0)
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