Ciardi, John 1916-1986

Overview

Works:	419 works in 937 publications in 1 language and 46,586 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Dictionaries Terms and phrases Juvenile works Limericks Fiction Records and correspondence Biography Narrative poetry
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Performer, Narrator, Signer, Author of introduction, Host, tra, Interviewer, Other
Classifications:	PS3505.I27, 811.52

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 )
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 by Michelle Lee( Book )
The poetry of John Ciardi by John Ciardi( Recording )
Robert Frost( Recording )
A manner of speaking : John Ciardi discusses his latest collection of essays 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 )
John Ciardi by John Ciardi( Recording )
The poetry of John Ciardi : how does it mean? by Jeffry F Lovill( )
Albrecht collection II by William Price Albrecht( )
by Theodore Roethke( )
Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 129 by Jeffrey W Hunter( )

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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 3,080 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri( Book )

23 editions published between 1954 and 2003 in English and held by 2,450 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 held by 1,710 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

The Inferno by Dante Alighieri( Book )

24 editions published between 1954 and 2001 in English and held by 1,441 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

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

15 editions published between 1961 and 1987 in English and held by 1,411 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 )

8 editions published between 1980 and 1982 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,309 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

This strangest everything by John Ciardi( Book )

6 editions published in 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,284 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri( Book )

22 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in English and held by 1,167 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."

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

6 editions published in 1964 in English and held by 1,117 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

7 editions published in 1955 in English and held by 1,109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

39 poems by John Ciardi( Book )

11 editions published in 1959 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,083 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

I met a man by John Ciardi( Book )

6 editions published in 1961 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,012 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 )

15 editions published between 1961 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The little that is all by John Ciardi( Book )

7 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 948 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Dialogue with an audience by John Ciardi( Book )

2 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 945 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

Lives of X by John Ciardi( Book )

5 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 920 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

16 poems - autobiographical, introspective, and occasionally ironic

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

9 editions published in 1962 in English and Undetermined and held by 915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Doodle soup : poems by John Ciardi( Book )

2 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 903 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

4 editions published between 1989 and 1992 in English and held by 897 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

I marry you : a sheaf of love poems by John Ciardi( Book )

11 editions published in 1958 in English and Undetermined and held by 837 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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