Karl Shapiro

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Karl Shapiro


Born
in Baltimore, Maryland, The United States
November 10, 1913

Died
May 14, 2000

Genre
Poetry

Influences
Walt Whitman, W.H. Auden, William Carlos Williams ...more


Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, appointed the fifth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946.

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Average rating: 3.43 · 1,433 ratings · 160 reviews · 101 distinct works
Selected Poems
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3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions
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In Defense of Ignorance
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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The Bourgeois Poet
4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1964
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Adult Bookstore
3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions
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A Prosody Handbook
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3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions
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Creative Glut: Selected Essays
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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Essay on Rime: with Trial o...
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V-Letter and Other Poems
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1944
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New and Selected Poems, 194...
3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1987
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White-Haired Lover
3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions
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“I have often thought that the Germans make the best Americans, though they certainly make the worst Germans.”
― Karl Shapiro
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