Randall Jarrell (1) (1914–1965)
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Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee on May 6, 1914. He earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. His first book of poetry, Blood from a Stranger, was published in 1942. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Force as a control tower operator. His mehr anzeigen other books of poetry include Little Friend, Little Friend; Losses; and The Lost World. He won the National Book Award in 1961 for The Woman at the Washington Zoo. In addition to writing poetry, he reviewed it during a brief period spent as poetry editor for The Nation. Poetry and the Age and A Sad Heart at the Supermarket are collections of his essays as a poetry critic. His teaching career included stints at Kenyon College, the University of Texas, Sarah Lawrence College, the University of Illinois, and the University of North Carolina/Greensboro. He also was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate. He was hit by a car in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and died in October 14, 1965 at the age of 51. (Bowker Author Biography) Randall Jarrell (1914-65) was a prolific poet, critic, and translator. His Complete Poems are available from FSG. (Publisher Provided) weniger anzeigen
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 917 Exemplare
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Mitwirkender — 447 Exemplare
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Mitwirkender — 151 Exemplare
The Fisherman and his wife : a tale from the brothers Grimm (1812) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 131 Exemplare
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Mitwirkender — 131 Exemplare
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Mitwirkender — 99 Exemplare
The Poet's Work: 29 Poets on the Origins and Practice of Their Art (1979) — Mitwirkender — 88 Exemplare
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Mitwirkender — 37 Exemplare
Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries (1970) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, Volume 2 (1973) — Selection & Translation — 12 Exemplare
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
New poems 1944. An anthology of American and British verse with a selection of poems from the armed forces. (1944) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Five Young American Poets (First Series) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
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- 1914-05-06
- Todestag
- 1965-10-14
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- New Garden Friends Cemetery, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA
- Sterbeort
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- Todesursache
- hit by car
- Wohnorte
- Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Ausbildung
- Vanderbilt University (BA|1935|MA|1937)
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- poet
literary critic
novelist
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- Army Air Force (WWII)
University of North Carolina, Greensboro - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Poet Laureate - Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1956)
National Book Award for Poetry (1961)
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FROM AMAZON: Randall Jarrell was the critic whose taste defined American poetry after World War II. Poetry and the Age, his first collection of criticism, was published in 1953. It has been in and out of print over the past 40 years and has become a classic of American letters. In this new edition, two long-lost lectures by Jarrell have been added. Recently discovered by critics, they speak to issues at the heart of Jarrell’s criticism: the structure of poetry and the question "Is American poetry American?"
One of the outstanding poets of the postwar generation, Jarrell was also celebrated for his extraordinary praise of some underappreciated older and younger poets and for his witty dismissals of current favorites he thought less qualified. Poetry and the Age includes groundbreaking considerations of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost as well as profound appraisals of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, and William Carlos Williams. His early reviews that established the reputations of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are here, beside other enthusiastic discoveries that have withstood the test of time.… (mehr)
One of the outstanding poets of the postwar generation, Jarrell was also celebrated for his extraordinary praise of some underappreciated older and younger poets and for his witty dismissals of current favorites he thought less qualified. Poetry and the Age includes groundbreaking considerations of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost as well as profound appraisals of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, and William Carlos Williams. His early reviews that established the reputations of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are here, beside other enthusiastic discoveries that have withstood the test of time.… (mehr)
i liked the way this started, and i liked the middle parts about the bear and lynx, but otherwise didn't really enjoy this much. it also felt weirdly...colonist, but i'm sure that's because of all i've been reading lately. like the mermaid coming to land and finding it better and superior in every way; it just felt icky to me. but the open hearted stories of living with animals were sweet. i just wish it had all been like that.
A charming book! My husband found this and gave it to me for Christmas. I'm delighted that he did. This would be a wonderful introduction to poetry for children. It is a lovely story of a bat who wiles away his time writing poems about the creatures around him. It has really beautiful illustrations as well. A great starting place for children to begin to write their own poetry.
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*The mermaid, of course, is technically not white. Her skin color is not specified but is mentioned as being dark. I do not think this invalidates the above critique.… (mehr)