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(1925-2009) Writer, literary critic. Richard Poirier was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts and died in Manhattan, New York. He founded the literary journal, Raritan: A Quarterly Review.

Full Name

Richard Poirier

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1925

BIRTH

Richard Poirier was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 1925.

1953

LITWORK

Stories British and American


Nonfiction; with Jack Barry Ludwig.

1960

LITWORK

The Comic Sense of Henry James: A Study of the Early Novels


Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature


Nonfiction.

1966

LITWORK

A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature


Nonfiction.

1971

LITWORK

The Performing Self: Compositions and Decompositions in the Languages of Contemporary Life


Nonfiction.

1972

LITWORK

Norman Mailer


Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

The Renewal Of Literature: Emersonian Reflections
Random House.
394501403
Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Nonfiction.

1992

LITWORK

Poetry And Pragmatism
Harvard University Press, 1992
0674679903, 9780674679900
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

Nonfiction.

2009

DEATH

Richard Poirier died in Manhattan, New York, in 2009.

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