The Third Book of Criticism

by Randall Jarrell

8vo. 333 (1) pp, note, 1. An Unread Book; 2. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; 3. Graves and the White Goddess; 4. Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden's Poetry; 5. Freud to The Stages of Auden's Ideology; 6. Robert Frost's "Home Burial"; 7. Six Russian Short Novels; 8. The English in England; 9. Fifty Years of American Poetry. First Printing, 1969. Cream cloth with blind-stamped decoration on front board, and red and black lettering to spine. ``Almost exclusively, these essays are celebrations of writers Jarrell loved, the kind of essay Lowell characterizes so 'Eulogy was the glory of Jarrell's criticism. Eulogies that not only impressed readers with his own enthusiasims, but which also, time and agein, changed and improved opinions and values. He left many reputations permanently altered and exalted." from the jacket flap.

Hardcover

First published June 1, 1969

About the author

Poems, published in collections such as Little Friend, Little Friend (1945), of American poet and critic Randall Jarrell concern war, loneliness, and art.

He wrote eight books of poetry, five anthologies, a novel, Pictures from an Institution . Maurice Sendak illustrated his four books for children, and he translated Faust: Part I and The Three Sisters , which the studio of actors performed on Broadway; he also translated two other works. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1960, served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1957 and 1958, and taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He joined as a member of the American institute of arts and letters.