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John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American poet and literary critic.^[1] As of 2005 he is Sterling Professor emeritus of English at Yale University. Previously he taught at Connecticut College, Hunter College, and the Graduate Center, CUNY.

He attended Columbia University where he studied under Mark Van Doren and Lionel Trilling, and had Allen Ginsberg as one of his classmates. After graduating he supported himself for a while writing liner notes for classical music albums before returning to obtain a Ph.D. in literature.^[2]

He is known also for his translations from Yiddish.

• 2006: Appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut.^[3]
• 2006: Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Prize
• 1990: MacArthur Fellowship
• 1983: Bollingen Prize for Powers of Thirteen.
• 1979: elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Department of Literature
• 1958: Yale Series of Young Poets for his first book of poems, A Crackling of Thorns, chosen by W. H. Auden.

• A Crackling of Thorns (1958) poems
• The Untuning of the Sky (1961)
• The Wind and the Rain (1961) editor with Harold Bloom
• Movie-Going (1962) poems
• Visions from the Ramble (1965) poems
• Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (1997) with Anthony Hecht
• Types of Shape (1968) poems
• Images of Voice (1970) criticism
• The Night Mirror (1971) poems
• Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) poems
• Vision and Resonance (1975) criticism
• Reflections on Espionage (1976) poems
• Spectral Emanations (1978) poems
• Blue Wine (1979) poems
• The Figure of Echo (1981) criticism
• Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse (1981) criticism
• Powers of Thirteen (1983) poems
• In Time and Place (1986) poems
• Harp Lake (1988) poems
• Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language (1988)
• Tesserae and Other Poems (1993)
• Selected Poetry (1993)
• Animal Poems (1994) poems
• The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art (1995) criticism
• The Work of Poetry (1997) criticism
• Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) poems
• Picture Window (2003)
• The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century, editor
• Poems Bewitched and Haunted (2005) editor

1. ^ NNdb
2. ^ Keillor, Garrison. Writer's Almanac. October 28, 2006.
3. ^ STATE OF CONNECTICUT, Sites º Seals º Symbols; Connecticut State Register & Manual; retrieved on January 4, 2007

Sonnets. From Dante to the present. Publisher: Everyman's library pocket poets.

• Brief biography
• John Hollander at Random House
• Interview with John Hollander