Howard, Richard 1929-

Overview

Works:	404 works in 1,404 publications in 6 languages and 46,580 library holdings
Genres:	Fiction Juvenile works Fairy tales Criticism, interpretation, etc Fantasy fiction Political fiction Poetry Science fiction Allegories Exhibition catalogs
Roles:	Translator, Author, Author of introduction, Editor, Other, Annotator, Lyricist, Contributor
Classifications:	PQ2637.A274, 843.912

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Richard Howard

Five by Michael Dellaira( )
A message to Denmark Hill by Charles Wuorinen( )
Our deep gossip : conversations with gay writers on poetry and desire by Christopher Hennessy( Book )
Poetry and dance (Exhibition) [clippings]( Book )
Poetry and dance (Exhibition) [clippings]( Book )

Letter from Mark Strand, place not identified, to Charles Simic, 1976? : by Mark Strand( )
Kenneth O. Hanson collection by Kenneth O Hanson( )
The Poetry and Dance Festival, Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein( Visual )
Rudy Kikel papers by Rudy Kikel( )
Richard Howard by Richard Howard( Recording )
William Harmon papers by William Harmon( )
by Adrienne Rich( )
Benjamin Taylor papers by Benjamin Taylor( )
Poetry reading at Sarah Lawrence College by Richard Howard( Recording )
Papers of Peter Hillsman Taylor by Peter Taylor( )
Mourning men : the elegiac in James Merrill and Richard Howard by Kathleen R McKeown( )
by Donald Finkel( )
by Robert S Phillips( )
Papers : of Peter Taylor by Peter Taylor( )
Poetry and dance (Exhibition) [clippings]( Book )

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Most widely held works by Richard Howard

The little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry( Book )

35 editions published between 2000 and 2017 in English and Chinese and held by 3,076 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

CLASSIC FICTION. This is a beautifully bound gift edition of this touching and wise classic. A pilot stranded in the desert awakes one morning to see, standing before him, the most extraordinary little fellow. "Please," asks the stranger, "draw me a sheep." And the pilot realizes that when life's events are too difficult to understand, there is no choice but to succumb to their mysteries. He pulls out pencil and paper ... Thus begins this wise and enchanting fable that, in teaching the secret of what is really important in life, has changed the world forever for its readers. Ages 4+

Alone with America; essays on the art of poetry in the United States since 1950 by Richard Howard( Book )

49 editions published between 1969 and 1980 in English and held by 2,075 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Richard Howard in the initial instance set himself the overwhelming task of a critical examination in detail of forty-one American poets as widely different as James Merrill and Gary Snyder, some celebrated and some obscure ... In this new and enlarged edition, one hundred pages longer than the original volume, he has added essays to many of the original chapters, dealing with new work by the poets originally examined ... but leaving the original text unchanged. --Atheneum

A happy death by Albert Camus( Book )

17 editions published between 1972 and 2013 in English and held by 1,742 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A young man searches throughout life for the key to confronting death without fear

Collected travel writings : Great Britain and America by Henry James( Book )

6 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 1,672 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This volume brings together James's writings on Great Britain and America. The essays of English Hours convey the freshness of James's "wonderments and judgments and emotions" on first encountering the country that became his adopted home for half a century. He captures the immensely varied life of London in a series of walks through that "murky, modern Babylon," which contains "the most romantic town-vistas in the world." Lively vignettes of a winter visit to an unfashionable watering place and excursions to the cathedral towns of Wells and Salisbury are followed by a haunting evocation of the desolate Suffolk coast at Dunwich. James includes vivid accounts of a New Year's weekend at a perfectly appointed country house, midsummer dog days in London, and the spectacle of the Derby at Epsom. In every essay he enriches his portrait of the English character, governed by social conventions and yet prone to startling eccentricities. Joseph Pennell's delightful illustrations, which appeared in the original 1905 edition, are reprinted with James's text. In The American Scene (1907) James revisits his native country after a twenty-year absence, traveling throughout the eastern United States from Boston to Florida. Views of the Hudson River arouse memories of his own past - the river "seemed to stretch back ... to the earliest outlook of my consciousness," he writes. James's poignant rediscovery of what remained of the New York of his childhood ("the precious stretch of space between Washington Square and Fourteenth Street") contrasts with his impression of the modern, commercial New York, a new city representing "a particular type of dauntless power, ..crowned not only with no history, but with no credible possibility of time for history?" Edmund Wilson, who praised The American Scene's "magnificent solidity and brilliance," remarked that "it was as if ... his emotions had suddenly been given scope, his genius for expression liberated." Sixteen essays on traveling in England, Scotland, and America conclude this volume. The essays, most of which have never before been collected, range from early pieces on London, Saratoga, and Newport, to articles on World War I that are among James's final writings

Paris in the twentieth century by Jules Verne( Book )

10 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 1,601 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A futuristic novel, written in the 1860s, describing the Paris of the 1960s, a city of cars, computers, even fax machines. The rulers are corporations, technology is god and people are expected to accept material profit as the reason for living. The novel was rejected by the publisher of the day as unrealistic

The immoralist by André Gide( Book )

17 editions published between 1970 and 1996 in English and held by 1,290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A translation of Gide's classic psychological novel depicting the gradual degeneration of an idealistic young scholar

Our deep gossip : conversations with gay writers on poetry and desire by Christopher Hennessy( )

7 editions published in 2013 in English and held by 1,106 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

S/Z by Roland Barthes( Book )

12 editions published between 1974 and 2006 in English and held by 1,034 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Ben shu shi yun yong jie gou zhu yi , jie gou zhu yi li lun lai fen jie ba er zha ke de xian shi zhu yi xiao shuo " sa la xin " de jing dian zhi zuo , ba " sa la xin " fen jie wei 561 ge yue dou dan wei , fen bie bei na ru dao liao wu zhong dai ma xi lie li , bing zai 93 ge dan yuan zhong de dao liao xiang xi fen xi

Robert Mapplethorpe by Richard Marshall( Book )

37 editions published between 1988 and 1991 in 4 languages and held by 1,009 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Even a superficial glance at this sampling of Robert Mapplethorpe's work makes it clear that the tempest has outgrown its teapot. Had Sen. Jesse Helms and his ilk not turned these photographs into a cause ceelebre, few people would have paid any attention to them. Mapplethorpe was a successful commercial photographer, and his pictures rarely transcend a fashion-magazine sensibility, despite references to Edward Weston, George Platt Lynes et al. The background in a portrait of a gay S-M couple is so cluttered with bric-a-brac, the result looks like a glossy magazine ad for a ritzy interior designer. The most disturbing element of his infamous "erotic" works is not their sexual content but their coldness. His nude studies of muscular black men look so remote and objectified, they suggest Pygmalion asking Venus to turn Galatea back into a statue. An offbeat coffeetable book for people who want to find out what the brouhaha in Cincinnati is about without bothering to fly to Ohio

Les fleurs du mal : the complete text of The flowers of evil by Charles Baudelaire( Book )

12 editions published between 1946 and 1987 in English and held by 1,002 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This translation of Baudelaire's magnum opus, perhaps the most powerful and influential book of verse from the 19th century, won the American Book Award for Translation. And the honor was well-deserved, for this is one of Richard Howard's greatest efforts. It's all here: a timeless translation, the complete French text, and Mazur's striking black and white monotypes in one elegant edition

The pleasure of the text by Roland Barthes( Book )

9 editions published between 1975 and 1998 in English and held by 968 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism ... not only a poetics of reading ... but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading ... Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge."--Richard Howard

The charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal( Book )

9 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 941 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the exploits of Fabrizio del Dongo, an ardent young aristocrat who joins Napoleon's army just before the battle of Waterloo. Yet perhaps the novel's most unforgettable characters are the hero's beautiful aunt, the alluring Duchess of Sanseverina, and her lover, Count Mosca, who plot to further Fabrizio's political career at the treacherous court of Parma in a sweeping story that illuminates an entire epoch of European history." "This edition includes original illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker and Notes and a Translator's Afterword by Richard Howard."--Jacket

For a new novel : essays on fiction by Alain Robbe-Grillet( Book )

8 editions published between 1965 and 1996 in English and held by 933 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

<<Ces textes ne constituent en rien une théorie du roman; ils tentent seulement de dégager quelques lignes d'évolution qui me paraissent capitales dans la littérature contemporaine. Si j'emploie volontiers, dans bien des pages, le terme de Nouveau Roman, ce n'est pas pour désigner une école, ni même un groupe défini et constitué d'écrivains qui travailleraient dans le même sens; il n'y a là qu'une appellation commode englobant tous ceux qui cherchent de nouvelles formes romanesques, capables d'exprimer (ou de créer) de nouvelles relations entre l'homme et le monde, tous ceux qui sont décidés à inventer le roman, c'est-à-dire à inventer l'homme. Ils savent, ceux-là, que la répétition systématique des formes du passé est non seulement absurde et vaine, mais qu'elle peut même devenir nuisible : en nous fermant les yeux sur notre situation réelle dans le monde présent, elle nous empêche en fin de compte de construire le monde et l'homme de demain.>> (Alain Robbe-Grillet)

The erasers by Alain Robbe-Grillet( Book )

9 editions published between 1964 and 2017 in English and French and held by 829 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Alain Robbe-Grillet is internationally hailed as the chief spokesman for the noveau roman and one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. The Erasers, his first novel, reads like a detective story but is primarily concerned with weaving and then probing a complete mixture of fact and fantasy. The narrative spans the twenty-four-hour period following a series of eight murders in eight days, presumably the work of a terrorist group. After the ninth murder, the investigation is turned over to a police agent, who may in fact be the assassin. Both an engrossing mystery and a sinister deconstruction of reality, The Erasers intrigues and unnerves with equal force as it pull us along to its ominous conclusion

G. Braque by Georges Braque( Book )

4 editions published in 1971 in English and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Empire of signs by Roland Barthes( Book )

9 editions published between 1982 and 2009 in English and held by 801 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Pourquoi le Japon ? parce que c'est le pays de l'écriture : de tous les pays que l'auteur a pu connaître, le Japon est celui où il a rencontré le travail du signe le plus proche de ses convictions et de ses fantasmes, ou, si l'on préfère, le plus éloigné des dégoûts, des irritations et des refus que suscite en lui la sémiocratie occidentale. Le signe japonais est fort : admirablement réglé, agencé, affiché, jamais naturalisé ou rationalisé. Le signe japonais est vide : son signifié fuit, point de dieu, de vérité, de morale au fond de ces signifiants qui règnent sans contrepartie. Et surtout, la qualité supérieure de ce signe, la noblesse de son affirmation et la grâce érotique dont il se dessine sont apposées partout, sur les objets et sur les conduites les plus futiles, celles que nous renvoyons ordinairement dans l'insignifiance ou la vulgarité. Le lieu du signe ne sera donc pas cherché ici du côté de ses domaines institutionnels : il ne sera question ni d'art, ni de folklore, ni même de "civilisation" (on n'opposera pas le Japon féodal au Japon technique). Il sera question de la ville, du magasin, du théâtre, de la politesse, des jardins, de la violence ; il sera question de quelques gestes, de quelques nourritures, de quelques poèmes ; il sera question des visages, des yeux et des pinceaux avec quoi tout cela s'écrit mais ne se peint pas. Roland Barthes (4ème de couverture)

Two novels by Alain Robbe-Grillet( Book )

4 editions published between 1965 and 1993 in English and held by 770 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Jealousy: "In a tropical jungle overlooking a banana plantation, a jealous husband is obsessed by his suspicion of adultery between his wife and his neighbor. Robbe-Grillet's handling of the devastating effect on the tormented husband and his subsequent violence gives us one of the most disturbing treatment of jealousy in contemporary fiction."--Publisher description

Preferences: 51 American poets choose poems from their own work and from the past. Commentary on the choices and an introd. by Richard Howard( Book )

9 editions published in 1974 in English and held by 738 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Inner voices : selected poems, 1963-2003 by Richard Howard( Book )

7 editions published between 2004 and 2007 in English and held by 668 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Here, in the first volume to draw together material from Richard Howard's twelve books of poems, readers can fully appreciate the erudite nuances of his lyric poetry and the human and historical bravura of his monologues and imagined conversations among famous figures."--Jacket

Projet pour une révolution à New York by Alain Robbe-Grillet( )

5 editions published between 1972 and 2012 in English and French and held by 665 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself-or a foreigner's nightmare of New York-as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into art-and back again. Following the logic of a movie half-glimpsed through a haze of drugs and alcohol, Project for a Revolution in New York is a Sadean reverie that bears an alarming resemblance to the

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