Jarrell, Randall
Jarrell, Randall( 1914–65),Tennessee-born author, graduated from Vanderbilt (1935), and taught at various colleges. From poems published in Blood for a Stranger (1942), Little Friend, Little Friend (1945), Losses (1948), and The Seven-League Crutches (1951) he chose his Selected Poems (1955). Later poetry and translations appear in The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960, National Book Award) and in The Lost World (1965). His other works include Poetry and the Age (1953), critical essays: A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962), essays on literature, the arts, and mass culture; and three posthumous volumes: The Third Book of Criticism (1969), The Complete Poems (1969), and his translation of Part One of Goethe's Faust (1973). Jerome (1971) prints his worksheets for an incomplete poem. Kipling, Auden & Co. (1980) gathers uncollected essays and...
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