The Lost World (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Randall Jarrell
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Children, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Memory, Adolescence, Twentieth century, Poetry or poets, California, West, U.S., Youth, Hollywood, Life and death, Christmas
- Locales: Hollywood, CA
Critical Evaluation:
The Lost World is the last book Randall Jarrell prepared for publication, and it is considered his finest work. The lost world of the title is, first of all, the world of childhood, inevitably lost as the child grows into adulthood. Innocence is lost to experience, ignorance to knowledge, and immediate reality to habit and routine. Childhood can only be recovered in memory and given limited immortality in works of art. Individual consciousness is extinguished in death, the final loss of the world for everyone. The earth, too, is finite, but this...
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