Shapiro, Karl 1913-2000

Overview

Works:	346 works in 864 publications in 4 languages and 35,012 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Erotic fiction Fictional autobiographies Biography History Biographical fiction
Roles:	Author, Editor, Librettist, Performer, Signer, Creator, Other, Author of introduction, Recipient, lbr, Lyricist, Correspondent, Honoree
Classifications:	PS3537.H27, 811.52

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Karl Shapiro

American poetry since 1945: a critical survey by Stephen Stepanchev( Book )
The contemporary poet as artist and critic : eight symposia by Anthony Ostroff( Book )
Karl Shapiro by Joseph Reino( Book )
Dear editor : a history of Poetry in letters : the first fifty years, 1912-1962( Book )
Poet : an autobiography in three parts by Karl Shapiro( Book )

American poetry by Irvin Ehrenpreis( Book )
Karl Shapiro : a descriptive bibliography, 1933-1977 by Lee Bartlett( Book )
Reports of my death by Karl Shapiro( Book )
Karl Shapiro; a bibliography by William White( Book )
Dialects of the tribe : postmodern American poets and poetry by Lewis Turco( Book )
The younger son by Karl Shapiro( Book )
Creative glut : selected essays of Karl Shapiro by Karl Shapiro( Book )
Karl Shapiro : ein jüdisch-amerikanischer Dichter by Dietmar Wilske( Book )
Poetry criticism, excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature( Book )
A bibliography of the work of Karl Jay Shapiro, 1935-1949 by Louise Quesnel-Ouellet( Book )
A bibliography of the work of Karl Jay Shapiro, 1935-June, 1945 by Enoch Pratt Free Library( Book )
Seriously meeting Karl Shapiro( Book )
Karl Shapiro with Joseph Parisi ; [and], Maxine Kumin with Alicia Ostriker by Karl Shapiro( Recording )
Still a small voice : toward an American-Jewish poetry by Richard S Chess( )
Karl Shapiro by Alfred S Reid( Recording )

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Most widely held works by Karl Shapiro

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller( Book )

16 editions published between 1961 and 2005 in English and held by 2,700 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris

American poetry : the twentieth century( Book )

1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 2,352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains over 1500 poems by more than 200 well-known American poets, including Langston Hughes, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens

Selected poems by Karl Shapiro( Book )

21 editions published between 1968 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In this new selection, master literary craftsman John Updike provides a long-overdue reassessment of Karl Shapiro, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who has become one of the defining figures of the postwar period

American poetry by Karl Shapiro( Book )

19 editions published between 1960 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,292 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A prosody handbook by Karl Shapiro( Book )

18 editions published between 1965 and 2012 in English and held by 1,282 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A practical guide to versification: filled with examples from English and American poets of many periods

Essay on rime by Karl Shapiro( Book )

33 editions published between 1944 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Poems, 1940-1953 by Karl Shapiro( Book )

15 editions published between 1940 and 1954 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The poetry wreck : selected essays, 1950-1970 by Karl Shapiro( Book )

10 editions published between 1975 and 1977 in English and held by 1,085 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The bourgeois poet by Karl Shapiro( Book )

8 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 1,062 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In defense of ignorance. [Essays] by Karl Shapiro( Book )

26 editions published between 1952 and 1968 in English and Italian and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays by a poet and critic in which he bewails obscurity in modern verse and questions the laurels heaped on Yeats, Pound, and Eliot

Collected poems, 1940-1978 by Karl Shapiro( Book )

19 editions published between 1953 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 976 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Spanning forty years, this anthology includes the author's choice from all his previously published poems, selections from White-Haired Lover and Adult Bookstore, and fifteen poems that have not appeared before

Poems of a Jew by Karl Shapiro( Book )

7 editions published in 1958 in English and held by 802 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

To abolish children and other essays by Karl Shapiro( Book )

5 editions published in 1968 in English and held by 787 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Prose keys to modern poetry by Karl Shapiro( Book )

10 editions published between 1962 and 1970 in English and Spanish and held by 777 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Adult bookstore by Karl Shapiro( Book )

10 editions published in 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

White-haired lover by Karl Shapiro( Book )

7 editions published in 1968 in English and Undetermined and held by 716 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

V-letter : and other poems by Karl Shapiro( Book )

14 editions published between 1944 and 1945 in English and held by 657 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New & selected poems, 1940-1986 by Karl Shapiro( Book )

9 editions published between 1987 and 1989 in English and held by 646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Admirers of Shapiro's work will welcome this volume of poems selected by the poet himself from over 50 years' work. Shapiro is a craftsman with an eye for detail. In poems such as ``Drug Store, '' ``Haircut, '' and ``The Tingling Back, '' he finds cause for personal celebration in the most quotidian occurrences; yet he is equally adept at probing more public subjects in ``The Conscientious Objector, '' ``Israel'' and ``Vietnam Memorial

Modern British poetry by Louis Untermeyer( Book )

4 editions published in 1955 in English and held by 613 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Web Feet summary: The complete text of Modern British Poetry, the landmark collection of poetry edited by Louis Untermeyer and first published in 1920, is available online as part of the Project Bartleby Archive, created and maintained by the Columbia University Bartleby Library. This is a magnificent collection of British poetry from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and contains the work of scores of well-known poets, including John Masefield, Edith Sitwell, William Butler Yeats, and A.E. Housman, and of writers who are today best known for their prose, including Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy, and Oscar Wilde

Edsel by Karl Shapiro( Book )

6 editions published between 1971 and 1972 in English and held by 593 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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