#  John Ciardi 

 



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Sort   ##  (1916-1986) 

 

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 Taught at Harvard (1946-1953) Sort   



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  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-00299.html) 





  



 

    Sort   ##  HARVARD COLLECTIONS 

 





    **General Overview** 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: John Ciardi](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%22Ciardi,%20John,%201916-%20%22)&adjacent=1) 





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  [HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: John Ciardi](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WSN=(%22Ciardi,%20John,%201916-%20%22)&adjacent=1) 





    **Rare Materials** 





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  [Finding Aid: Violet Ranney Lang's Additional Papers](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00347)   
Includes John Ciardi's 2 letters to Violet Ranney Lang. 





   ##  ADDITIONAL LINKS 

 





    





  [Googlebooks: *The Purgatorio: A Verse Translation for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi*](http://books.google.com/books?id=VBNCq5A5O8MC&printsec=frontcover) (New American Library, 1961) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Poems of Love and Marriage*](http://books.google.com/books?id=yqGQsn6SqhwC&printsec=frontcover) (University of Arkansas Press, 1988) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry*](http://books.google.com/books?id=3aOKLTEKTSEC&printsec=frontcover) (University of Arkansas Press, 1989) 





    





  [Googlebooks: *The Collected Poems of John Ciardi*](http://books.google.com/books?id=qkcmAjKXJn0C&printsec=frontcover) (University of Arkansas Press, c1997)