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The roots of Jarrell's concerns with childhood are in his own youth, says Flynn. Including new information gathered in interviews with Jarrell's wife and others close to him, Flynn begins his study by examining Jarrell's unhappy upbringing. After discussing the poet's precocity, his parents' divorce, and other aspects of his boyhood, Flynn relates them to Jarrell's writings. The first full-length study of childhood as a vital key to understanding...
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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, childrens book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. This book examines all of Jarrells work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Other books have examined Jarrells poetry in biographical or formal terms, but none...
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"The six poets featured in The Wounded Surgeon - Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Delmore Schwartz, and Sylvia Plath - were the most recent constellation of great poets in our history, a group of friends, colleagues, and rivals who changed the face of American literature. Their poems about childhood trauma, madness, and sex shattered taboos about what was acceptable in poetry, inspiring the popular style of poetry now...
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Contains essays on W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Theodore Roethke, David Ignatow, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. Presents an overview of each poet's work in the milieu of the past 50 years of American poetry, with emphasis on the effects of Freud, Marx and Darwin on the individual poet and society.
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