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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... called mainstream of American poetry, to which more “radical” or disjunctive writers are said to offer alternatives. Jarrell did not anticipate those developments—if anything, they have made him harder to understand. To see how Jarrell ...
... called him childish, even as he worried about his advancing age. “The Woman at the Washington Zoo” describes animals “Aging, but without knowledge of their age” (CP215); in another poem, an old woman says of “Mother and.
... called Lowell, after his death, “le Byron de nous jours” (32). Jarrell himself displayed a striking personality, a demanding intellect, and a need for affection: his life, by his own choice and luck, lacked public drama until its hard ...
... called Mother Has Fainted.” Playing out the familiar scene, the children did as we were told: Put a pillow under her head (or else her feet) To make the blood flood to her head (or else away from it). Now she was set. ... ... ... We ...
... called “The Ballad of the Sheik Who Lost His Shine.”) Randall returned to his mother's household in the fall of 1927. His sense of his life there did not improve; he would tell Amy Breyer much later that “just being in Nashville upsets ...
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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 | |