Randall Jarrell and His AgeColumbia University Press, 2005 M04 6 - 320 páginas Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960 National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell, Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist. |
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... Jarrell admired most - Bishop and Lowell now belong to a so - called mainstream of American poetry , to which more " radical " or or disjunctive writers are said to offer alternatives . Jarrell did not anticipate those developments — if ...
... Jarrell's narrator " grateful for the best of gifts , a change in one's own self " ( Pictures 151 ) . Children matter to Jarrell not least because they are guaranteed to change ; Jarrell's adults fear that they have become fixed ...
... Jarrell is hardly the only poet of his era who reconsidered the self. Thomas Travisano has argued that Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, and John Berryman, whose lives and works so often intersect, collectively address “the problem of selfhood ...
... Jarrell's poetic style depicts that interdependence . Reacting against his teachers ' insistence on poems as self - contained artifacts , Jarrell embraced Wordsworthian views of poetry as troped speech . Such views soon gave Jarrell's ...
... Jarrell's use of Proust ; it then shows how certain poems about old age , middle age , and childhood use verbal repetition to depict the persistence of the self . Chapters 5 and 6 take up kinds of selves , showing how Jarrell ...
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Institutions Professions Criticism | |
Psychology and Psychoanalysis | |
Time and Memory | |
Childhood and Youth | |
Men Women Children Families | |
What We See and Feel and Are | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |