Randall Jarrell and His Age

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Burt Klappentext Randall Jarrell (1914--1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet! comic novelist! translator! children's book author! and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop! Robert Lowell! Hannah Arendt! and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960 National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell! Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist. Burt's book examines all of Jarrell's work! incorporating new research based on previously undiscovered essays and poems. Other books have examined Jarrell's poetry in biographical or formal terms! but none have considered both his aesthetic choices and their social contexts. Beginning with an overview of Jarrell's life and loves! Burt argues that Jarrell's poetry responded to the political questions of the 1930s! the anxieties and social constraints of wartime America! and the apparent prosperity! domestic ideals! and professional ideology that characterized the 1950s. Jarrell's work is peopled by helpless soldiers! anxious suburban children! trapped housewives! and lonely consumers. Randall Jarrell and His Age situates the poet-critic among his peers -- including Bishop! Lowell! and Arendt -- in literature and cultural criticism. Burt considers the ways in which Jarrell's efforts and achievements encompassed the concerns of his time! from teen culture to World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis; the book asks! too! how those efforts might speak to us now. Zusammenfassung This book! winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award! examines all of Jarrell's work! incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems. Burt situates the poet- critic among his peers! including Bishop and Arendt! in literature and cultural criticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionAntechapter: Randall Jarrell's Life1: Jarrell's Interpersonal Style2: Institutions! Professions! Criticism3: Psychology and Psychoanalysis4: Time and Memory5: Childhood and Youth6: Men! Women! Children! and FamiliesConclusion: "What We See and Feel and Are"Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Steph Burt, Stephen Burt, Burt Stephen
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2005
• EAN: 9780231125956
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12595-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Biography: general, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, POETRY / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, American English, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets