Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life
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Book Overview
This elegantly written study concentrates on the complex interaction between Jarrell's life and work, describing and commenting on his most important poems and prose, but also focusing on the significant events and experiences of his life. Pritchard dramatizes the ambiguous character of the man: a worshipper of childhood, deeply at odds with his own early years; a wonderfully commonsensical and humorous critic whose imagination was haunted by darker patterns of story and myth.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374522774
ISBN13:9780374522773
Release Date:January 1992
Publisher:Farrar Straus Giroux
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.7" x 8.9"
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A pertintent review of an important poet-critic; essential!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
William Pritchard's biography gives Jarrell's work, his poetry and criticism, an illumination rarely seen in any recent biography. Pritchard dives right in to the essentials of the often over looked man of letters. A must for any fan of Jarrell and American poetry as well. In this text it is the poet's work that comes first, givin the readers a rare glimpse into probably the most well read individual since Eliot. Through Jarrell's work are we then capable of understanding the obsessions and motivations of a truly interesting man.
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