Robert Pack
Author · 1929 – 2023

Robert Pack

Robert Pack (May 19, 1929 – June 5, 2023) was an American poet and critic, and Distinguished Senior Professor in the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana - Missoula. For thirty-four years he taught at Middlebury College and from 1973 to 1995 served as director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He is the author of twenty-two books of poetry and criticism. Pack has been called, by Harold Bloom, an heir to Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson, and has himself published a volume of admiring essays on Frost's poetry He has co-edited several books with Jay Parini, including Writers on Writing: A Breadloaf Anthology. -Wikipedia

Works

New poets of England and America
1957
Touchstones
1996
Still Here, Still Now
2008
Introspections
1997
Poems for a small planet
1993
Writers on Writing
1991
Poems for a Small Planet
1993
Willing to Choose
2007
Elk in Winter
2010
Laughter Before Sleep
2011
Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Essays
1989
New poets of England and America
1961
A Stranger's Privilege
1959
Clayfeld Holds On
2015
Belief and uncertainty in the poetry of Robert Frost
2003
Elk in winter
2004
A stranger's privilege.
1959
American identities
1994
Writers on writing
1991
A stranger's privilege
1959
Keeping Watch
1976
Selected poems
1964
Event Horizon
2021
Affirming Limits
1988
Searching for Home
2023
Touchstones
1996
Idea in the Mirror
2023
Laughter before sleep
2011
New Poets of England and America
1969
Literature For Composition On The Theme Of Innocence And Experience
1966
Wallace Stevens
1958
New Poets of England and America
1957
The New Poets of England and America
1974
New Poets
GUARDED BY WOMEN [ 1st ]
1963
Guarded by women
1963
Home from the cemetery
1969
To Love That Well
2013
The irony of joy
1955
Clayfeld rejoices, Clayfeld laments
1987
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