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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... social givens within which it is asked to behave . They show how the self seeks fantasy , and how it turns to memory , as refuges from the demands the world makes on it , or from ( worse yet ) the world's neglect . And they examine how ...
... is Romance?” (Pictures 176). Far from affirming a complacent, unchanging self (a self that is the possessor of possessions), Jarrell often defends a self he sees as nearly powerless against social forces - against the disempowerment of the.
... social roles , so that the only change left for them is 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 ...
... social roles . He tried to do so consistently in essays , where his 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 ...
... social phenomenon ( " teenagers " ) and as an inward stage of emotional life . Chapter 5 considers these interests , concluding with a discussion of one of his neglected long poems . Chapter 6 looks at mothers , fathers and families ...
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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 | |