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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... prose concerns other poets ' poetry . Poetry - or lyric poetry , or poetry since the Romantic era is frequently said to have as its province the inner life , or the psyche , or the self . That general vocation for poetry became ...
... prose style gave him dazzling instruments of appreciation and judgment ; it gave him , as well , the means to portray aesthetic experience as something apart from , even opposed to , professional and disciplinary activity . Such ...
... prose about visual art , asking — as Jarrell asked - whether the self can ever be fully depicted . Often I try to advance my general claims through sustained readings of single poems ; one of my goals is to demonstrate that Jarrell's ...
... prose operate , what they can teach us , what his characters need , how some of them find it , and how aesthetic experience can console them when they do not . Those attempts should not occlude the pessimism he manifests sometimes as a ...
... prose . He wrote , in an unpublished lecture for librarians , A shrew or a hummingbird eats half its weight in twenty- four hours ; when I was a boy I read half my weight in a week . I went to school , played , did the things the grown ...
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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 | |