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Richard Poirier

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Gender Male
Death14 years ago
Date of birth September 9,1925
Zodiac sign Virgo
Born Gloucester
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died August 15,2009
DiedManhattan
New York City
New York
United States
Job Literary critic
Education Harvard University
Amherst College
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Date of Upd.
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Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing
Poetry and Pragmatism
The renewal of literature
The Performing Self
A World Elsewhere: The Place of Style in American Literature
The comic sense of Henry James
Trying It Out in America
Norman Mailer
Mailer
Oxford Reader
The aesthetics of contemporary American radicalism
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Richard Poirier Life story


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

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