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    Randall Jarrell and His Age
    Randall Jarrell and His Age
    Randall Jarrell and His Age
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    Randall Jarrell and His Age

    By Stephen Burt

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    Randall Jarrell (19141965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960 National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell, Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist.

    Burt's book examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research based on previously undiscovered essays and poems. Other books have examined Jarrell's poetry in biographical or formal terms, but none have considered both his aesthetic choices and their social contexts. Beginning with an overview of Jarrell's life and loves, Burt argues that Jarrell's poetry responded to the political questions of the 1930s, the anxieties and social constraints of wartime America, and the apparent prosperity, domestic ideals, and professional ideology that characterized the 1950s. Jarrell's work is peopled by helpless soldiers, anxious suburban children, trapped housewives, and lonely consumers. Randall Jarrell and His Age situates the poet-critic among his peersincluding Bishop, Lowell, and Arendtin literature and cultural criticism. Burt considers the ways in which Jarrell's efforts and achievements encompassed the concerns of his time, from teen culture to World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis; the book asks, too, how those efforts might speak to us now.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherColumbia University Press
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9780231500951
    Randall Jarrell and His Age
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    Stephen Burt

    Stephen Burt is professor of English at Harvard University and the author of several books of poetry and literary criticism, among them Belmont (2013); The Art of the Sonnet, with David Mikics (2010); Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (2009), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Forms of Youth: 20th-Century Poetry and Adolescence (2007); Parallel Play (2006); and Randall Jarrell and His Age (2002), winner of the Warren-Brooks Award for Literary Criticism. Burt’s essays and reviews — most of them about poetry, some of them about comic books, gender, pop music, and other topics — have appeared in many journals, magazines and newspapers, including American Literary History (ALH), Boston Review, the London Review of Books, Modern Philology, the Nation, and the New York Times Book Review.

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