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Poetry · 1975

Tales Told of the Fathers

Publication

Title
Tales Told of the Fathers
Author
John Hollander (Columbia College, Class of 1950)
Form
Poetry
First published
1975
Publisher
Atheneum

Complete works of John Hollander (45)

  1. 1958 A Crackling of Thorns · Yale Series of Younger Poets
  2. 1961 The Untuning of the Sky: Ideas of Music in English Poetry, 1500–1700 · Criticism
  3. 1961 The Wind and the Rain: An Anthology of Poems for Young People · Editor, with Harold Bloom
  4. 1962 Movie-Going and Other Poems · Atheneum
  5. 1964 Philomel · Text for Milton Babbitt's electronic cantata
  6. 1965 Visions from the Ramble · Atheneum
  7. 1966 The Quest of the Gole · Illustrated verse-fable
  8. 1967 Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls · Co-edited with Anthony Hecht
  9. 1968 Modern Poetry: Essays in Criticism · Editor
  10. 1969 Types of Shape · Original
  11. 1970 Images of Voice: Music and Sound in Romantic Poetry · Criticism
  12. 1971 The Night Mirror: Poems · Atheneum
  13. 1972 Town and Country Matters: Erotica and Satirica · Limited edition (5,000 copies)
  14. 1973 The Oxford Anthology of English Literature · Co-editor, with Frank Kermode
  15. 1974 The Head of the Bed · Godine chapbook, with commentary by Harold Bloom
  16. 1975 Tales Told of the Fathers · Atheneum this record
  17. 1975 Vision and Resonance: Two Senses of Poetic Form · Criticism
  18. 1976 Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake · Book-length poem
  19. 1978 Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems · Atheneum
  20. 1979 Blue Wine and Other Poems · Johns Hopkins University Press
  21. 1981 Rhyme's Reason · Criticism
  22. 1981 The Figure of Echo · Criticism
  23. 1983 Powers of Thirteen · Original
  24. 1986 In Time and Place · Johns Hopkins University Press
  25. 1986 Some Fugitives Take Cover · Limited edition
  26. 1988 Harp Lake · Knopf
  27. 1988 Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language · Criticism, Yale UP
  28. 1990 The Essential Rossetti · Editor
  29. 1991 William Bailey · New York: Rizzoli, 1991
  30. 1993 American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century · Editor, two-volume anthology
  31. 1993 Selected Poetry · Retrospective selection
  32. 1993 Tesserae and Other Poems · Knopf
  33. 1994 Animal Poems · Editor
  34. 1995 The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art · Criticism/anthology
  35. 1996 Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize · Editor
  36. 1997 The Work of Poetry · Criticism, essay collection
  37. 1998 The Poetry of Everyday Life · Criticism
  38. 1999 Christmas Poems · New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999
  39. 1999 Figurehead and Other Poems · Knopf
  40. 2001 Sonnets: From Dante to the Present · Editor
  41. 2003 American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse · Editor
  42. 2003 Picture Window · Knopf
  43. 2005 Poems Bewitched and Haunted · Editor
  44. 2008 A Draft of Light · Knopf
  45. 2016 The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History · Criticism, based on his 1999 Clark Lectures

Cite this record

Hollander, John. Tales Told of the Fathers. Atheneum, 1975.

Foundation record: https://philolexianfoundation.org/members/hollander-john-cc-1950/tales-told-of-the-fathers-1975.html