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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... young man to Vanderbilt ; he matriculated in the fall of 1932 . " I had a scientific education and a radical youth , " Jarrell recalled in 1950 ( Age 21 ) . Evidence for both begins at Vanderbilt . So does Jarrell's precocious literary ...
... young Warren had contributed . Jarrell a devotee of Marx and Auden - embraced his teachers ' literary stances while rejecting their politics . Taylor remembered that Jarrell " was opposed to Agrarianism from the beginning ...
... young man as " upsettingly brilliant , precocious , knowing , naïve , and vexing " ; he could be ( Lowell continued ) " tender and gracious , though he seemed tone - deaf to the amenities and dishonesties that make human relations ...
... young girls ... to sewing for him " ( RJ 244 ) . Taylor would later claim ( perhaps self - servingly ) " Jarrell treated everybody very badly ... [ Lowell ] and I were the only ones who stuck by him through thick and thin ...
... brought in his onetime hero , William Empson , who reviewed Kafka's Metamorphosis and Sartre's No Exit.?Jarrell offered reviewing work to the young James Baldwin , who forty years later would thank him ( along with other editors )
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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 | |