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...

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...

Randall Jarrell emerged after World War II as a leading American poet and critic. By the time he began writing children's books in 1962, he had published seven volumes of poetry (one of which had won a National Book Award), two highly significant books...

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...