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Randall Jarrell
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Based on the special collection of Jarrell’s writing in the library of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the bibliography is comprehensive, not only for all his books, but…
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Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin-this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to…
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Stephen Burt
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was an influential poetry critic. This book examines his work, situating him among peers. It examines the social context of his aesthetic choices, examining events ranging from…
This book, winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award, examines all of Jarrell’s work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Burt situates the poet- critic…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Randall Jarrell’s Losses, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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Offer readings of Auden’s works and illuminates his use of stylistic registers and poetic genres. This book traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and overwhelmed Auden’s poetry. It considers…
Poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a diverse literary talent with a distinctive voice, by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. His poetry, whether dealing with art, war…
Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits.
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These papers from the poet and critic Randall Jarrell include letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor’s lifetime. These letters add a further dimension…
A Study Guide for Randall Jarrell’s The Woman at the Washington Zoo , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author…
A study guide for Randall Jarrell’s The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner , excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character…
This shining jewel of a book (that) cries to be read aloud … (and) speaks to every child (New York Times Book Review) combines the work of two bestselling children’s…
Mary Jarrell
An intimate study of distinguished poet-critic Randall Jarrell by his widow describes the source and inspiration of his literary works, his lifelong friendships with author Peter Taylor and poet Robert…
Dr. Steven Kaplan
Robert Bly and Randall Jarrell are the only two major American poets who have translated extensively from the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, but their versions of this German poet’s…
Hiroshi Shikuma, Randall Jarrell
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From the narratives of army life during World War Two to the domestic and familial scenes of his final book, this selection presents Jarrell’s art at its best, comparable in…
Hartmut Heep
A traditional reading of Rilke’s oeuvre is based on the assumption that Rainer Maria Rilke is a German poet. For decades however, Rilke has left his mark on American poetry…
Ludwig Bechstein
Jacob Grimm
Frequently reprinted with slightly differing bibliographical details.
Randall 1914-1965 Jarrell
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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