San Antonio College Library

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...

A study of the generation of French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian young men who fought in World War I.

Informed by a knowledge of political thought and by close attention to poetic texture, Disowned by Memory is above all a study of moral psychology. The idea of personal consciousness which we now take for granted, yet which has been vital to the development of modern poetry, had much of its real beginning in Wordsworth. More than any other work of criticism, this book tells how that discovery occurred.