Columbia History of American Poetry

Jay Parini is Axinn Professor of English at Middlebury College. A former Guggenheim Fellow and visiting fellow at Christ Church College, Oxford, Parini has published four volumes of poetry, five novels (including The Last Stationand Benjamin's Crossing), a critical study of Theodore Roethke, and biographies of John Steinbeck and Robert Frost. The latter won the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for the best work of nonfiction in 1999. He has also edited numerous volumes, including The Norton Anthology of American Autobiographyand The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry.Parini, Jay is the author of 'Columbia History of American Poetry ', published 1993 under ISBN 9780231078368 and ISBN 0231078366.