Ciardi, John 1916-1986

Overview

Works:	502 works in 1,137 publications in 2 languages and 46,320 library holdings
Genres:	Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Epic poetry Juvenile works Humorous poetry Narrative poetry Echo verse Odes Terms and phrases Dictionaries
Roles:	Author, Translator, Editor, Narrator, Performer, Signer, Other, Interviewer, Author of introduction, Host
Classifications:	PS3505.I27, 851.1

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about John Ciardi

John Ciardi by Edward 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 by Jeffrey W Hunter( )
The poet and his inspiration by John Ciardi( Recording )
The poetic voice of John Ciardi by Rebecca W Stanislaw( )
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 )
John (Anthony) Ciardi : (1916-1986)( )
The poetry of John Ciardi : how does it mean? by Jeffry F Lovill( )
John Ciardi( Visual )

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Most widely held works by John Ciardi

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

28 editions published between 1959 and 1987 in English and Undetermined and held by 2,695 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Explains the basic elements of poetry and groups poems to encourage an analysis of similarities and differences

Inferno by Dante Alighieri( Book )

43 editions published between 1952 and 2009 in English and held by 1,741 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

Mid-century American poets by John Ciardi( Book )

20 editions published between 1950 and 1952 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,640 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 )

19 editions published between 1932 and 1987 in English and held by 1,358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

This strangest everything by John Ciardi( Book )

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

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 held by 1,214 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Purgatorio by Dante( Book )

26 editions published between 1957 and 2009 in English and French and held by 1,157 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."

The divine comedy by Dante Alighieri( Book )

16 editions published between 1950 and 1985 in English and held by 1,138 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

Person to person by John Ciardi( Book )

9 editions published in 1964 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,095 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

8 editions published in 1955 in English and held by 1,081 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

39 poems by John Ciardi( Book )

11 editions published in 1959 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,065 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

14 editions published between 1961 and 1971 in English and held by 965 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Paradiso by Dante( Book )

20 editions published between 1961 and 2009 in English and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

I met a man by John Ciardi( Book )

6 editions published in 1961 in English and Undetermined and held by 943 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

Dialogue with an audience by John Ciardi( Book )

2 editions published in 1963 in English and held by 926 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 917 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 897 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 882 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

16 editions published in 1958 in English and Undetermined and held by 834 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Doodle soup : poems by John Ciardi( Book )

3 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 821 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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