JOHN HOLLANDERisthe author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His first,A Crackling of Thorns, was chosen by W. H. Auden as the 1958 volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. He wrote eight books of criticism, including the award-winningRhyme's Reason- A Guide to English VerseandThe Work of Poetry,and edited or coedited twenty-two collections, among themThe Oxford Anthology of English Literature, American Poetry- The Nineteenth Century,and (with Anthony Hecht, with whom he shared the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1983)Jiggery-Pokery- A Compendium of Double Dactyls. Mr. Hollander attended Columbia and Indiana Universities and was aJunior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. He taught at Connecticut College and Yale, and was a professor of English at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. In 1990 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. He died in August 2013.