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Randall Jarrell 19141965 was the most influential poetry critic of hisgeneration. He was also a lyric poet comic novelist translator childrensbook author and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop Robert Lowell HannahArendt and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Libraryof Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell Stephen Burtoffers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist.Burts book examines all of Jarrells work incorporating new research based onpreviously undiscovered essays and poems. Other books have examined Jarrellspoetry in biographical or formal terms but none have considered both hisaesthetic choices and their social contexts. Beginning with an overview ofJarrells life and loves Burt argues that Jarrells poetry responded to thepolitical questions of the 1930s the anxieties and social constraints ofwartime America and the apparent prosperity domestic ideals and professionalideology that characterized the 1950s. Jarrells work is peopled by helplesssoldiers anxious suburban children trapped housewives and lonely consumers.Randall Jarrell and His Age situates the poetcritic among his peers including Bishop Lowell and Arendt in literature and cultural criticism.Burt considers the ways in which Jarrells efforts and achievements encompassedthe concerns of his time from teen culture to World War II to the CubanMissile Crisis the book asks too how those efforts might speak to us now. «
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