Robert Lowell (essay dates 1957 and 1965)


Robert Lowell (essay dates 1957 and 1965)

SOURCE: Lowell, Robert. “Randall Jarrell.” In Robert Lowell: Collected Prose, edited by Robert Giroux, pp. 87-98. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.

[In the following essays, “On the Seven–League Crutches,” originally published in 1957, and “Randall Jarell, 1914–1965,” originally published in 1965, Lowell favorably reviews Jarrell's The Seven-League Crutches, and presents a reminiscence of Jarrell as a poet, critic, and friend.]

I / ON THE SEVEN-LEAGUE CRUTCHES

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