Jarrell, Randall - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Benfey, Christopher. “The Woman in the Mirror: Randall Jarrell and John Berryman.” In Men Writing the Feminine: Literature, Theory, and the Question of Genders, edited by Thaïs E. Morgan, pp. 123-38. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.

Examines Jarrell's treatment of female subjects in such poems as “The Face” and “Next Day.”

Brown, Sandra M. “Poetry and the Age: ‘A Girl in a Library’ to Randall Jarrell.” In The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism, edited by Diane P. Freedman, Olivia Frey, and Frances Murphy Zauhar, pp. 151-61. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.

Offers personal observations on Jarrell's poetry and on authorial responsibility with some reference to the poem “A Girl in a Library.”

Broyard, Anatole. Reviews of Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life, by William H. Pritchard and Selected Poems,...

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