Randall Jarrell and His Age

Columbia University Press

Publishers Since 1893

New York Chichester, West Sussex

cup.columbia.edu

E-ISBN 978-0-231-50095-1

My deepest thanks to Mary von Schrader Jarrell for permission to quote from previously unpublished writings by Randall Jarrell. My thanks as well to Farrar, Straus & Giroux and to Faber and Faber for permission to quote from The Complete Poems by Randall Jarrell and from Notebook by Robert Lowell.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Burt, Stephen.

Randall Jarrell and his age / Stephen Burt.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0–231–12594–1 (cloth : alk. paper)

1. Jarrell, Randall, 1914–1965. 2. United States—Intellectual life—20th century. 3. Poets, American—20th century—Bibliography. 4. Critics—United States—Biography. I. Title.

PS3519.A86 Z596 2002

811'.52—dc21

2002071257

A Columbia University Press E-book.

CUP would be pleased to hear about your reading experience with this e-book at cup-ebook@columbia.edu.