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Biography

Name: Randall Jarrell
Birth Date: June 6, 1914
Death Date: October 14, 1965
Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Place of Death: Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet, critic

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Biography of Randall Jarrell
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Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), poet and critic, was one of the most versatile American men of letters during the two decades immediately after World War II. Randall Jarrell was born June 6, 1914, in Nashville, Tennessee, but spent most of his early years...
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Biography of Randall Jarrell
10,628 words, approx. 35 pages
Best known for his poetry of World War II and his incisive, memorably witty criticism, Randall Jarrell belonged to the second generation of American modernist poets. Like Robert Lowell and John Berryman—contemporaries and personal friends—he...
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Biography of Randall Jarrell
9,790 words, approx. 33 pages
Best known for his poetry of World War II and his incisive, memorably witty criticism, Randall Jarrell belonged to the second generation of American modernist poets. Like Robert Lowell and John Berryman--contemporaries and personal friends--he worked...
 


Quotations
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Randall Jarrell Quotes
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Randall Jarrell ( 1914-05-06 - 1965-10-15 ) was an American poet, novelist, critic, children's book author and essayist. Contents 1 Sourced 1.1 Blood for a Stranger (1942) 1.2 Little Friend, Little Friend (1945) 1.3 Losses (1948) 1.4 The Seven-League...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Randall Jarrell Information
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Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965), was a United States poet, novelist, critic, children's author and...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
Though Uncertainty Continues, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking
4/23/2006: 841 words, approx. 3 pages
Sept. 11 has occasioned a lot of art, and most of it is lousy. No surprise, really: It’s rare to find a painter, novelist, playwright or filmmaker who can tease out the nuances of actual, often devastating events or bring order to them. The typical...
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The New York Observer
Though Uncertainty Continues, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking
4/23/2006: 841 words, approx. 3 pages
Sept. 11 has occasioned a lot of art, and most of it is lousy. No surprise, really: It’s rare to find a painter, novelist, playwright or filmmaker who can tease out the nuances of actual, often devastating events or bring order to them. The typical...
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Tango
The Way She Looks
6/30/2007: 1,311 words, approx. 4 pages
The sheets were blue and white, I remember, and smelled lightly of l’Air du Temps. The mattress was on the floor and I was flat on my back looking up, admiring my girlfriend as she stood admiring herself, completely naked, in the mirror across the...
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The New York Observer
Nora Ephron\'d5s Sublime Wit Trained on Loss and Regret
8/13/2006: 1,326 words, approx. 4 pages
This is a book about age and regret. Since it’s by Nora Ephron, it’s funny. A funny book about loss is a puzzle, and it’s that puzzle that I, if not the author, tussle with in reading this delightful, maddening collection of personal essays whose...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Sister M. Bernetta Quinn
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In the following essay, Quinn traces Jarrell's poetic development through his depiction of landscape in verse.
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Critical Essay by James Longenbach
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In the following essay, Longenbach affirms Jarrell's so-called “semifeminine” poetic sensibility.
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Lecture by Randall Jarrell
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In the following excerpt, originally delivered as a lecture in 1942, Jarrell explains his aesthetics of poetic structure, emphasizing temporality, a struggle of opposites, and a dialectical tension of elements as the fundamental qualities of poetry.
 


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