Richard Poirier

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Richard Poirier (born Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1925) is an American literary critic.

He is a co-founder of the Library of America, and chairs its Board. He is also Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature (emeritus) at Rutgers University, and the editor (emeritus) of Raritan, a literary quarterly.

He is a past editor of Partisan Review.

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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)
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 (1987)
Raritan Reading (1990) editor
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1990)
Poetry and Pragmatism (1992)
Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays of Robert Frost (1995) editor with Mark Richardson
Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances (2003) with Wilson Follett