Dec 24, 2009
Extraordinary variety and productivity marked John Gardner’s literary career: He published two collections of short fiction, numerous novels, three books of tales and one of verse for young readers, an “epic,” a book of poems, opera librettos, a radio play, and reviews. Since he was an academic as well as an imaginative writer, Gardner also published scholarly books and articles—most, however, directed chiefly at nonspecialists, with the aim of making the literature more accessible (his translations of medieval poetry, for example, or his biography...
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