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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... seems to have understood the writers around him as posterity would : for some poets ( such as Robert Lowell and Robert Frost ) he helped to shape that posterity , while for others ( such as Elizabeth Bishop ) he prefigured it . Many ...
... seem to erase their inner being with the repeated , insistent plea for change . One well - known poem , " The Woman at ... 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 ...
... younger brother Charles was born.1 Soon afterwards the family moved to Long Beach, where Owen opened his own photography studio. At least from this time , Anna seems to have been high - strung Antechapter: Randall Jarrell's Life.
Stephanie Burt. time , Anna seems to have been high - strung and sickly : Randall's few comments later in life portray her as alternately controlling and helpless . Mary von Schrader Jarrell , the poet's widow , recalls that Randall told ...
... seems to have combined great tactlessness with great charm . Lowell , writing in 1967 , remembered the young man as " upsettingly brilliant , precocious , knowing , naïve , and vexing " ; he could be ( Lowell continued ) " tender and ...
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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 | |