Randall Jarrell and his age / Stephen Burt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burt, Stephen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.

Jarrell, Randall.

Poets, American--20th century--United States--Biography.

Poets, American.

Critics--Biography.

Critics.

United States--Intellectual life--20th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2005]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) 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 peers-including Bishop, Lowell, and Arendt-in 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Antechapter: Randall Jarrell's Life

Chapter 1: Jarrell's Interpersonal Style

Chapter 2: Institutions, Professions, Criticism

Chapter 3: Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Chapter 4: Time and Memory

Chapter 5: Childhood and Youth

Chapter 6: Men, Women, Children, Families

Conclusion: "What We See and Feel and Are"

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780231500951

0231500955

OCLC:

979719906