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Randall Jarrell's Letters
This selection of Jarrell's letters to friends and colleagues, including Hannah Arendt, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Delmore Schwartz, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, reveals his passion for ideas and people, and his uncompromising demand for excellence
- GenresPoetry
540 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 1985
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Randall Jarrell
111 books94 followersPoems, 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.
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.
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