Dana Gioia

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On Writers

Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia in his studio

Dana Gioia’s reviews and notes on writers and poets have been influential in contemporary poetry. They are widely taught and translated. Individual essays can be read here. His criticism has been collected here.
He has also written widely on:

  • Writing and Reading

  • On Poetry

  • Literary California

  • Music & Film

Selected Essays

  • W. H. Auden
  • Elizabeth Bishop
  • Ray Bradbury
  • Anthony Burgess
  • Charles Causley
  • Anton Chekhov
  • Peter Davison
  • Tom Disch
    • Remembering Tom Disch
  • T.S. Eliot
  • William Everson
  • William Everson
  • James Fenton
  • Jack Foley
  • Robert Frost
    • On Robert Frost’s “Nothing Gold Can Stay”
    • Robert Frost and the Modern Narrative
  • Gabriel García Márquez
  • Thom Gunn
  • R. S. Gwynn
  • John Haines
  • Donald Hall
  • H. L. Hix
  • Barbara Howes
  • Randall Jarrell
  • Robinson Jeffers
  • John Keats
  • Weldon Kees
    • Weldon Kees: Naked Kees
    • Weldon Kees: On “Aspects of Robinson”
    • On John T. Irwin’s The Poetry of Weldon Kees
  • Garrison Keillor
  • Ted Kooser
  • Philip Larkin
  • Philip Levine
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Robert McDowell
  • Samuel Menashe
  • Frederick Morgan
  • Adrienne Rich
  • Kay Ryan
  • William Jay Smith
  • Felix Stefanile
  • Radcliffe Squires
  • James Tate
  • Dunstan Thompson
  • Richard Wilbur
  • John Allan Wyeth