Randall Jarrell (Critical Survey of Poetry)

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An important critic and teacher of literature as well as a poet, Randall Jarrell published critical essays, translations, children’s books, and a novel. His first book of criticism, Poetry and the Age (1953), examines the function of the poet in modern society, the nature of criticism, and the work of John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens,

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