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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

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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: 3.42 · 1,518 ratings · 174 reviews · 102 distinct works

	Selected Poems by Karl Shapiro, John Updike (Editor) 3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Defense of Ignorance really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1965 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bourgeois Poet 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1964	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Adult Bookstore 3.56 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Prosody Handbook by Karl Shapiro, Robert Beum 3.92 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1965 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creative Glut: Selected Essays 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	V-Letter and Other Poems 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1944	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Essay on Rime: with Trial of a Poet by Karl Shapiro, Robert Phillips 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New and Selected Poems, 1940-1986 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White-Haired Lover 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1968 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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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