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...Helen Bevington Poetry and the Age . By Jarrell Randall . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 1953 . Pp. 271 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1954 by Duke University Press 1954 152 The South Atlantic Quarterly think hard but not to give unqualified assent. If the more plodding scholar, who...

...Fred Chappell The Poetry of Randall Jarrell . By Ferguson Suzanne . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1971 . Pp. ix , 247 . $8.95 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 168 The South Atlantic Quarterly The Poetry of Randall Jarrell. By Suzanne...

...Mark I. Goldman The Politics of Poetry: Randall Jarrell s War Mark I. Goldman Having washed out as a pilot trainee, Randall Jarrell spent his war years as an instructor of aviation, including, appropriately for a poet, classes in celestial navigation. Though Jarrell did not get overseas...

... but not to give unqualified assent. If the more plodding scholar, who is much chided these days, does not take daring leaps, per­ haps his caution is not unreasonable. Louis j. budd Poetry and the Age. By Randall Jarrell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Pp. 271. $4.00. Randall Jarrell has published four volumes...

..., obscure triolet he selects from Hardy, or with Williams the dangerously throw-away line of Randall Jarrell s to the effect that Williams will say anything he thinks is true. Pritchard also likes to bring critics of opposing views on to the scene (these seem to include Yvor Winters and Randall Jarrell...

... as possible. I can illustrate this by telling you about two of my closest friends, John Crowe Ransom and Randall Jarrell. Ransom told me, back when he was at the height of his powers, I m going to quit writing poetry pretty soon. I said, You re crazy, and he said, No, I know myself. I m going to quit...

... of romantic poetry. It is clever, technically polished, and intricate, but largely impersonal. In A Note on Poetry (published in Five Young American Poets Randall Jarrell states the qualities which in general he considers typical of modernist poetry: . . . very interesting language, a great emphasis...

... Foucault. william h. pritchard is Henry Clay Folger Professor of English at Amherst College. His latest book, Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life, has recently appeared in paperback (1992). A frequent traveler to the former Soviet Union, donald j. raleigh is Professor of Soviet History at the University...

... three essays are negligible; the last two (by Richard Wilbur and Randall Jarrell) are extremely good. Unfortunately the essays, good and bad, have nothing in common be­ yond the attitude toward their subject matter that Don Cameron Allen, who edited the collection, so gracefully indicated by his title...

... Mercier and Mackie L. Jarrell; neither is of more than slight interest to the reader interested primarily in the Dean himself. Of the three essays written especially for this volume, the most valuable is Ricardo Quintana s Modest Ap­ praisal of Swift scholarship and criticism of the past twenty years...

.... There are no full-length studies of Lillian Heilman, Randall Jarrell, Hamilton Basso, Truman Capote, and Erskine Caldwell. Critical studies of Marjorie Rawlings, T. S. Stribling, Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and Cleanth Brooks are inadequate, and certain aspects of the work of Allen Tate, Paul Green, and Sidney...

... Heilman, Randall Jarrell, Hamilton Basso, Truman Capote, and Erskine Caldwell. Critical studies of Marjorie Rawlings, T. S. Stribling, Mary Johnston, Ellen Glasgow, and Cleanth Brooks are inadequate, and certain aspects of the work of Allen Tate, Paul Green, and Sidney Lanier remain to be explored...

..., Randall Jarrell, and Donald Stauf­ fer, who were responsible for the best essays in that issue, guarantee respect. The other essays, arranged chronologically from Robert Penn Warren s prime study of Mr. Ransom s irony (1935) to the warmly personal account of Ransom as editor of the Kenyon Review by George...

...; and he must present local writers without puffery or condescension. Young does the job about as well as it can be done. Any reader will have numerous quarrels, as I do. Randall Jarrell is badly slighted; George Scar­ brough and Jeff Daniel Marion are not even mentioned; too much attention is given...

... writes of Lowell s first book, Lord Weary's Castle: One or two of these poems, I think, will be read as long as men remember English. How on earth can a critic know? I wish for Mr. Jarrell more time in which to write and a little more perspective. There is much modern poetry for him yet to discuss...

... been Book Reviews 355 practiced by Auden. (Auden is shown as a major influence and initiator among a group of poets which includes J. Berryman, J. M. Brinnin, H. Chisholm, R. Fitzgerald, R. Jarrell, H. Nemerov, F. Prokosch, K. Rexroth, R. P. Warren, and many more.) An appropriate subtitle for the book...

... Reviews 355 practiced by Auden. (Auden is shown as a major influence and initiator among a group of poets which includes J. Berryman, J. M. Brinnin, H. Chisholm, R. Fitzgerald, R. Jarrell, H. Nemerov, F. Prokosch, K. Rexroth, R. P. Warren, and many more.) An appropriate subtitle for the book might have...

...: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1962, $3.50) is a collection of five essays that were read at the second Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival in the fall of 1961. The authors are all well-known academic poets. The first three essays are negligible; the last two (by Richard Wilbur and Randall Jarrell) are extremely good...

... to experimenters of a different sort and perhaps of a steadier eye, such as Robert Duncan and James Tate, and to poet-critics of undeniable authority like Marianne Moore, Randall Jarrell, Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell. . . . That [Bishop s] mind is capable of inspiring and delight­ ing minds of so many...

... quarrels, as I do. Randall Jarrell is badly slighted; George Scar­ brough and Jeff Daniel Marion are not even mentioned; too much attention is given to an early story of Peter Taylor s, not enough to the later ones. Young aroused my interest in Evelyn Scott, who published at least a half dozen novels...