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Richard Poirier (born Gloucester, Massachusetts, September 9, 1925, died New York City, August 15, 2009) was an American literary critic.

He co-founded of the Library of America, and served as chairman of its Board. He was Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature (emeritus) at Rutgers University, and the editor (emeritus) of Raritan, a literary quarterly. He was also an editor of Partisan Review.

Works

• Stories British and American (1953) with Jack Barry Ludwig
• The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels (1960)
• In Defense of Reading : A Readers Approach to Literary Criticism (1963) editor with Reuben A.Brower
• A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature (1966)
• American Literature: Volume Two (Little, Brown 1970) editor with William L. Vance
• The Oxford Reader: Varieties of Contemporary Discourse (1971) editor with Frank Kermode
• The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life (1971)
• Norman Mailer (1972)
• Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing (1977)
• The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections (Random House, 1987) ISBN 0394501403
• Raritan Reading (1990) editor
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1990)
• Poetry and Pragmatism (1992)
• Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays of Robert Frost (Library of America, 1995) editor with Mark Richardson
• Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances (2003)

References

External links

• New York Times obituary
• Biographical page