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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... human agency is essentially defined as 'the self,' is a linguistic reflection of our modern understanding” (177). Taylor does not, however, wish to do away with the self: he does not think that we moderns should or can.1 Other thinkers ...
... human experience has its origins in young children's discovery of distinctions between " I " and " you , " self and other , self and mother : children discover a space ( " potential space " ) that may count as self or other , or both ...
... gracious , though he seemed tone - deaf to the amenities and dishonesties that make human relations tolerable " ( RJ 101-103 ) . Jarrell not only taught English but also coached tennis ; Peter Taylor recalled the improbable spectacle of.
... ' and the heart sinks " ( Berg Collection ) . In the army , and in his poems about it , Jarrell found himself thinking less about literary conventions and more about the human person as such: writing to Lowell, he described.
Stephanie Burt. the human person as such: writing to Lowell, he described the army as a place where “your knowledge and the other person's ignorance doesn't differentiate you at all” (Letters 150). Poems about the army, the army air ...
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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 | |
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