| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 291 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-275) and index. |
| Contents |
Antechapter: Randall Jarrell's Life -- Jarrell's Interpersonal Style -- Institutions, Professions, Criticism -- Psychology and Psychoanalysis -- Time and Memory -- Childhood and Youth -- Men, Women, Children, Families -- Conclusion: "What We See and Feel and Are." |
| Summary |
"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." "Burt's book examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research based on previously undiscovered essays and poems. Other books have examined Jarrell's poetry in biographical or formal terms, but none have considered both his aesthetic choices and their social contexts. Beginning with an overview of Jarrell's life and loves, Burt argues that Jarrell's poetry responded to the political questions of the 1930s, the anxieties and social constraints of wartime America, and the apparent prosperity, domestic ideas, and professional ideology that characterized the 1950s."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
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Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965. |
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Intellectual life. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Poets, American. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Critics -- United States -- Biography.
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Critics. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burt, Stephen. Randall Jarrell and his age. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002 0231125941 (DLC) 2002071257 (OCoLC)49775458 |
| ISBN |
0231500955 (electronic book) |
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9780231500951 (electronic book) |
| Music No. |
EB00639072 Recorded Books |
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