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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... Remembering Randall. I am also indebted to previous books about Jarrell's poems, among them Suzanne Ferguson's 1972 survey and monographs by Sister Bernetta Quinn and Charlotte Beck. William Pritchard's Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life ...
... (Remembering 141). Some readers take parts of the late poem “Hope” as portraits of Anna: one passage describes “a ... remembered Randall's descriptions of his mother's kin: “In Nashville, Randall said, he was 'covered with relatives.' The ...
... (Remembering 141). Yet Randall also told his college sweetheart, Amy Breyer, that he had “lived all over, and always been separated from at least half of a very small family, and been as alone as children ever are” (Letters 60).2 The ...
... (Remembering 141; italics in original) At Hume-Fogg High School, Jarrell practiced tennis, starred in some school plays, and began his career as a critic with satirical essays in a school magazine and scathing reviews of Nashville Little ...
... remembered that Jarrell “was opposed to Agrarianism from the beginning” (Conversations 117–118). One Masquerader cover caricatured John Crowe Ransom with a spray can, trying with apparent futility to defend Southern flora from Northern ...
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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 | |