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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... Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”), a charming book or two for children, and a panoply of influential reviews. This book aims to illuminate a Jarrell more ambitious, more complex, and more important than that. He is ambitious partly ...
... death. Jarrell's works cohere as defenses of the private self—but for him, in what seems only a paradox, to be oneself is to be able to change; to be always and only the same is not to be at all. My title plays on Jarrell's first and ...
... death wish, and the persistence of early desires. Where his “confessional” peers cast themselves as patients, Jarrell identified with psychoanalysts: his poems thus explore the intersubjective components of psychoanalysis and of emotion ...
... death. Continuing arguments about his demise have done more to distract us from his poems than they have to illuminate them. Those arguments have, however, alerted readers to what Mary Kinzie calls his “undercurrent of nihilism” (72) ...
... 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 last months. This book ...
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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 | |