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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... letters, in person and over the phone, and additionally through her published writings. Without her assistance this book could not exist. Having spent month after month in and around the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library, I ...
... letters, Jarrell took up other challenges to the self, challenges he saw throughout mid-century culture—in supermarkets, in army barracks, in classrooms and lecture halls, on TV, and even within the family. Against all these he insisted ...
... other. Alan Williamson has already found just such choices at the core of Jarrell's work.7 Some of Jarrell's best interpreters were his contemporaries. Reviews, letters, and the occasional poem by Lowell, Bishop, Karl.
Stephanie Burt. Reviews, letters, and the occasional poem by Lowell, Bishop, Karl Shapiro, Delmore Schwartz, and others who knew Jarrell personally have been consistently helpful, as has Mary von Schrader Jarrell, in person and through ...
... (Letters 60).2 The congeries of Nashville relatives lacked, for him, the warmth he found in L.A. Young Randall spent much of his free time at Nashville's Carnegie Library, which became the source of several poems (among them “The ...
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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 | |