Jarrell, Randall (Vol. 9) - Jarrell, Randall 1914–1965
Jarrell, Randall 1914–1965
Jarrell was an American poet, critic, editor, translator, and novelist whom Robert Lowell called "the most heartbreaking … poet of his generation." Jarrell's work presents a sensitive perspective of the condition of modern man and his culture. Jarrell also wrote several delightful, poetic books for children. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 6, and Contemporary Authors, obituary, Vols. 25-28, rev. ed.)
"We have lost for good," Randall Jarrell once wrote, "the poems that would have been written by the modern equivalent of Henry VIII or Bishop King or Samuel Johnson; born novelists, born theologians, born princes." We might add, born critics: because Jarrell … can be said to have put his genius into his criticism and his talent into his poetry.
That talent, in the course of his life, grew considerably…. If we reconstruct, from [The Collected Poems] …, the boy Jarrell growing into the man...
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