The New Leader, May 14th, 1990
RAMDA;; KARRE;; (1914-1965) was a second-rate poet and first-rate critic. Most people would have been satisfied with this; not Jarrell. He had to be at the top in everything that mattered to him, and poetry mattered more than criticism, though first-rate critics may be even rarer than first-rate poets in America. The dimly sensed subaltern status in poetry could have been in large measure what killed him. Actually, of course, it was a car. The car sideswiped him as he was returning one evening from a hospital where he was being treated as an outpatient for an improperly healing hand injury i...
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