Ciardi, John 1916-1986

Overview

Works:	455 works in 1,028 publications in 1 language and 46,311 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Epic poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Dictionaries Juvenile works Narrative poetry Humorous poetry Echo verse Odes Terms and phrases
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Narrator, Performer, Other, Signer, Interviewer, Author of introduction, Host
Classifications:	PQ4315, 851.1

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Ciardi

John Ciardi by Edward Francis Krickel( Book )
John Ciardi : a biography by Edward M Cifelli( Book )
The selected letters of John Ciardi by John Ciardi( Book )
The achievement of John Ciardi; a comprehensive selection of his poems with a critical introduction by John Ciardi( Book )
Saipan : the war diary of John Ciardi by John Ciardi( Book )

John Ciardi : measure of the man( Book )
John Ciardi, a bibliography by William White( Book )
Dialects of the tribe : postmodern American poets and poetry by Lewis Turco( Book )
Contemporary literary criticism. excerpts from criticism of the works of today's novelists, poets, playwrights, and other creative writers by Jeffrey W Hunter( )
The poet and his inspiration by John Ciardi( Recording )
Poetry criticism. excerpts from criticism of the works of the most significant and widely studied poets of world literature( Book )
A Sound portrait of Robert Frost( Recording )
The poetry of John Ciardi by John Ciardi( Recording )
John Ciardi : poet, literary critic, oral interpreter, his literary concepts and their significance for the field of oral interpretation by Doris Guth MacBride( )
John Ciardi : Tufts Poet by John Holmes( Book )
A manner of speaking : John Ciardi discusses his latest collection of essays by John Ciardi( Recording )
The poetic voice of John Ciardi by Rebecca W Stanislaw( )
John Ciardi by John Ciardi( Recording )
John (Anthony) Ciardi : (1916-1986)( )
The poetry of John Ciardi : how does it mean? by Jeffry F Lovill( )

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Most widely held works by John Ciardi

How does a poem mean? by John Ciardi( Book )

30 editions published between 1959 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,737 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Originally published as one section of a collaborative volume entitled introduction to literature

Inferno by Dante Alighieri( Book )

49 editions published between 1952 and 2009 in English and held by 2,064 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the first part of Dante's epic poem about the three realms of the Christian afterlife, a spiritual pilgrim is led by Virgil through the nine circles of Hell

The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri( Book )

15 editions published between 1954 and 2003 in English and held by 1,816 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This single volume, blank verse translation of The Divine Comedy includes an introduction, maps of Dante's Italy, Hell, Purgatory, Geocentric Universe, and political panorama of the thirteenth and early fourteenth century, diagrams and notes providing the reader with invaluable guidance

Mid-century American poets by John Ciardi( Book )

17 editions published between 1950 and 1952 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Covers major mid-20th-century poets such as Randall, Jarrell, Robert Lavell and Richard Wilbur

You read to me, I'll read to you by John Ciardi( Book )

17 editions published between 1932 and 1987 in English and held by 1,386 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Humorous poems to read aloud to children alternating with poems beginning readers can read themselves. Grades 1-4

A browser's dictionary, and native's guide to the unknown American language by John Ciardi( Book )

9 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and held by 1,251 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"A compendium of curious expressions and intriguing facts"--Jacket subtitle

This strangest everything by John Ciardi( Book )

7 editions published in 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,250 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Person to person; [poems] by John Ciardi( Book )

7 editions published in 1964 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

As if : poems new and selected by John Ciardi( Book )

6 editions published in 1955 in English and held by 1,089 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri( Book )

20 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in English and held by 1,072 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Dante describes his journey to the renunciation of sin, accepting his suffering in preparation for his entrance into the presence of God."

39 poems by John Ciardi( Book )

10 editions published in 1959 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,071 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I met a man by John Ciardi( Book )

6 editions published in 1961 in English and Undetermined and held by 976 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

For beginning readers, these poems lead children to new words through rhyme, riddles, context, and word game

In the stoneworks; [poems] by John Ciardi( Book )

13 editions published between 1961 and 1971 in English and held by 966 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Paradiso by Dante Alighieri( Book )

17 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in English and held by 939 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Dante's ultimate vision of universal harmony and eternal salvation"--Cover

Dialogue with an audience by John Ciardi( Book )

2 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 930 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Selections of pieces by the poetry editor of the "Saturday review". Includes criticism of poets and poetry and letters sent to Ciardi from his readers

The little that is all by John Ciardi( Book )

7 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 925 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Responsibility and reality are the author's primary interests in this collection of works

Lives of X by John Ciardi( Book )

5 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 907 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic

In fact; [poems] by John Ciardi( Book )

7 editions published in 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 895 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

New poems by the poetry editor of "The Saturday Review of literature."

The hopeful trout and other limericks by John Ciardi( Book )

6 editions published between 1988 and 1992 in English and held by 860 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A collection of limericks about such characters as the Elephant Boy, the fast fiddler from Middletown, and the silly old skinflint named Quince

Doodle soup : poems by John Ciardi( Book )

3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 855 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Thirty-eight poems, mostly humorous, by the well-known poet

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