(1916-1986) Taught at Harvard (1946-1953) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION American National Biography Online HARVARD COLLECTIONS General Overview HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: John Ciardi HOLLIS Catalog Subject Search: John Ciardi Rare Materials Finding Aid: Violet Ranney Lang's Additional Papers 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 (New American Library, 1961) Googlebooks: Poems of Love and Marriage (University of Arkansas Press, 1988) Googlebooks: Ciardi Himself: Fifteen Essays in the Reading, Writing, and Teaching of Poetry (University of Arkansas Press, 1989) Googlebooks: The Collected Poems of John Ciardi (University of Arkansas Press, c1997)