Karl Shapiro

Bibliography

POETRY

Poems, Waverly, 1935.
(Contributor) Five Young American Poets, New Directions, 1941.
Person, Place, and Thing, Reynal, 1942.
The Place of Love, Comment Press, 1942.
V-Letter and Other Poems, Reynal, 1944.
Essay on Rime, Secker & Warburg, 1945.
Trial of a Poet and Other Poems, Reynal, 1947.
(Contributor) Poets at Work, Harcourt, 1948.
Poems: 1940-1953, Random House, 1953.
The House, privately printed, 1957.
Poems of a Jew, Random House, 1958.
The Bourgeois Poet, Random House, 1964.
Selected Poems, Random House, 1968.
White-Haired Lover, Random House, 1968.
Adult Book Store, Random House, 1976.
Collected Poems: 1948-1978, Random House, 1978.
Love and War, Art and God, Stuart Wright, 1984.
Adam and Eve, edited by John Wheatcroft, Press Alley, 1986.
New and Selected Poems, 1940-1986, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
The Wild Card: Selected Poems, Early and Late, edited by Stanley Kunitz and David Ignatow, University of Illinois Press, 1998.

CRITICISM AND PROSE

English Prosody and Modern Poetry, Johns Hopkins Press, 1947, reprinted, Folcroft Library Editions, 1975.
A Bibliography of Modern Prosody, Johns Hopkins Press, 1948, reprinted, Folcroft Library Editions, 1976.
Beyond Criticism, University of Nebraska Press, 1953, published as A Primer for Poets, 1965.
(Author of libretto) The Tenor (opera; music by Hugo Weisgall), Merion Music, 1956.
In Defense of Ignorance, Random House, 1960.
(With James E. Miller, Jr. and Beatrice Slote) Start it with the Sun: Studies in Cosmic Poetry, University of Nebraska Press, 1960.
(With Ralph Ellison) The Writer's Experience, Library of Congress, 1964.
(With Robert Beum) Prosody Handbook, Harper, 1965.
Randall Jarrell, Library of Congress, 1967.
To Abolish Children and Other Essays, Quadrangle Books, 1968.
Edsel (novel), Geis, 1970.
The Poetry Wreck: Selected Essays, 1950-1970, Random House, 1975.
The Younger Son: Poet; An Autobiography in Three Parts; The Youth and War Years of a Distinguished American Poet, Algonquin Books, 1988.
Reports of My Death: An Autobiography, Algonquin Books, 1990.

AS EDITOR

(Editor with Louis Untermeyer and Richard Wilbur) Modern American and Modern British Poetry, Harcourt, 1955.
(Editor) American Poetry (anthology), Crowell, 1960.
(Editor) Prose Keys to Modern Poetry, Harper, 1962.
(Editor with Robert Phillips) Letters of Delmore Schwartz, Ontario Review Press/Persea Books, 1984.

AUTHOR OF INTRODUCTION

Pawel Majewski, editor, Czas Niepokoju (anthology; title means "Time of Unrest"), Criterion, 1958.
Jack Hirschman, A Correspondence of Americans, Indiana University Press, 1960.
Bruce Cutler, The Year of the Green Wave, University of Nebraska Press, 1960.

OTHER

Also author of screenplay "Karl Shapiro's America," 1976. Work appears in anthologies. Contributor of articles, poetry, and reviews to Partisan Review, Poetry, Nation, Saturday Review, and other periodicals. Editor, Poetry, 1950-56, Newberry Library Bulletin, 1953-55, and Prairie Schooner, 1956-66. Some of Shapiro's papers are held in the Library of Congress's Archival Manuscript Materials Collection.