Randall Jarrell and His Age by Stephanie Burt (PDF)

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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.

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⭐Insightful and helpful to those who would like to have a deeper understanding of R Jarrell. one of the finest American critics and poets.

⭐Randall Jarrell was one of the inspirational makers and shakers of later twentieth-century poetry and criticism, who combined a formidable intellectual ambition with a vulnerable sense of grounding in the everyday life of his time. Stephanie Burt’s study is as movingly readable as Jarrell’s own memorable poetry and prose, and makes a compelling case for the continuing importance as well as historical witness of Jarrell’s eloquent, witty, and poignantly exposed writing in and about poetry. The book makes a gripping case for the resonance of Jarrell’s poems in particular, and throws light on the comparable intellectual inventiveness and heart-breaking and/or witty emotional complexity of Burt’s own oeuvre.

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