• John Anthony Ciardi (/ˈtʃɑːrdi/ CHAR-dee; Italian: [ˈtʃardi]; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While...
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    unrepentant soul into one of the three major divisions of Hell. According to John Ciardi, these are incontinence (the she-wolf); violence and bestiality (the...
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  • Cifariello Ciardi (born 1960), Italian composer Francesca Ciardi (born 1954), Italian actress Guglielmo Ciardi (1842–1917), Italian painter John Ciardi (1916–1986)...
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  • defense attorney Edward de Grazia called writers such as Allen Ginsberg, John Ciardi, and Norman Mailer to testify to the book's literary merit. Although...
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    Burnham, The Dictionary of Misinformation; Thomas Y. Crowell, 1975. John Ciardi, "Widow's Walk: Sailor's Friend, or Fire Station?" National Public Radio...
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    Mifflin. p. 65. W. B. Yeats, The Poems (1984), p. 203. John Ciardi, Collected Poems of John Ciardi (1997). C. S. Lewis, The Discarded Image (1964) M. A...
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    French Order of Arts and Letters. In 2008, Ferlinghetti was awarded the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry. This award is handed out by...
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  • often been accompanied by a cult of immorality, as for example when John Ciardi acclaimed Naked Lunch as "a monumentally moral descent into the hell...
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    translator, and modern poets, including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, John Ciardi, W. S. Merwin, and Stanley Lombardo, have also produced translations...
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    Theatre in Cambridge, which was supported by Harvard faculty members John Ciardi and Thornton Wilder. He frequently stated that his formal art training...
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