Poirier, Richard (William)

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POIRIER, Richard (William)

POIRIER, Richard (William). American, b. 1925. Genres: Literary criticism and history, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Distinguished Professor of English, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963- (Chairman of the Dept., 1963-72). Ed., Raritan Quarterly, 1981-; Founder and Vice- President, The Library of America. Instructor, Williams College, William- stown, Massachusetts, 1950-52; Instructor, 1958-60, and Assistant Professor, 1960-63, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Ed., Partisan Review, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1963-73. Publications: The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels, 1960; (ed.) Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 4 vols., 1961-64; (ed. with R.A. Brower) In Defense of Reading, 1962; (ed. with W. Abrahams) Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, 2 vols., 1965-66; A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature, 1966; (ed. with W.L. Vance) American Literature, 1970; (ed. with F. Kermode) The Oxford Reader, 1971; The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life, 1971; Norman Mailer, 1972; The Aesthetics of Contemporary American Radicalism, 1972; Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing, 1977; The Renewal of Literature: Emersonian Reflections, 1987; Poetry and Pragmatism, 1992. Address: Raritan Quarterly, 31 Mine Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, U.S.A.

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