Most Popular Books by John Ciardi

The Divine Comedy stands as one of the towering creations of world literature, and its climactic section, the Paradiso, is perhaps the most ambitious poetic attempt ever made to represent the merging of individual destiny with universal order. Having passed through Hell and Purgatory, Dante is led by his beloved Beatrice to the upper sphere of Paradise, wherein lie the sublime truths of Divine will and eternal salvation, to at last experience a rapturous vision of God.

Selections of pieces by the poetry editor of the "Saturday review". Includes criticism of poets and poetry and letters sent to Ciardi from his readers.

New poems by the poetry editor of "The Saturday Review of literature".

A collection of limericks about such characters as the Elephant Boy, the fast fiddler from Middletown, and the silly old skinflint named Quince.

A collection of twenty-five humorous and nonsense poems.

Defines unusual and interesting idiomatic words and phrases.

Poems deal with happiness, fragility, crime, education, parenthood, friendship, mortality, dreams, knowledge, and nature

Essays reveal the author''s thoughts on the painstaking craftmanship involved in the art of writing poetry

Correspondence with A.K. Laing regarding readings at Dartmouth College (Richard Eberhart mentioned); 2 holograph poems, typescripts of 6 other poems.