Randall Jarrell and His Age

animals, see also dogs; cats; fox; Jarrell, Randall, Works: Animal Family, The; Bat-Poet, The; “Owl’s Bedtime Story, The”; “Seele im Raum”; lions; lynx; rabbits; squirrels

aposiopesis. See interruptions

Arendt, Hannah, on art, on children, friendship with RJ, in Greensboro, on loneliness and companionship, and Nation, and Pictures, RJ’s letters to. Works: “French Existentialism,” Life of the Mind, The, Origins of Totalitarianism

Ariadne auf Naxos. See Strauss, Richard

Armed Vision, The. See Hyman, Stanley Edgar

Army. See war and war poems

Auden, W. H., homosexuality in, influence on RJ’s poetry, as professional, reaction to RJ, RJ as critic of, and unconscious. Works: Age of Anxiety, The, For the Time Being, “More Loving One, The,” “New Year Letter,” “Musée de Beaux Arts,” Paid on Both Sides, Shield of Achilles, The (book), “Shield of Achilles, The” (poem), “Spain 1937,” “We have brought you, they said”

Austria. See Salzburg; see also German language and literature

automobiles and auto racing, in photos of RJ

Barrie, J. M. (Peter Pan)

Batterson, Camille (fictional character)

Beatrice (Mary Jarrell’s daughter)

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

Benjamin, Jessica, on children, on love, on mothers and motherhood; see also recognition

Berryman, John, elegy for RJ, in Five Young American Poets, in New York City, in Nation, and psychoanalysis

Bettelheim, Bruno (The Uses of Enchantment)

Bishop, Elizabeth; influence on RJ’s poetry, on The Lost World, in New York City, and Nation, on “The One Who Was Different,” on “The Player Piano,” and psychoanalysis, RJ admires, on RJ generally, on “Woman,”. Works: “At the Fishhouses,” “Crusoe in England,” “In the Waiting Room,” “Songs for a Colored Singer”

Blackmur, R. P., Blake, William

Bollingen Prize. See Jarrell, Randall, Works: “The Pound Affair”

Botteghe Oscure (magazine)

Breyer, Amy (later de Blasio), breakup with RJ, as medical student, RJ’s letters to

Brooks, Cleanth, Understanding Poetry

Browning, Robert, see also dramatic monologue

Burlingame, Dorothy. See Freud, Anna

Byron, Lord (George Gordon)

California and California locales: in “The End of the Rainbow,” in “Gleaning,” in The Lost World, in “The Player Piano,” RJ’s childhood in, îo; RJ weds Mary in, in “Thinking of the Lost World”

cars. See automobiles

case studies, psychoanalytic

cats and kittens, see also Kitten; lion; lynx

celestial navigation tower

Champaign-Urbana (Illinois)

change (mental and emotional), in psychoanalysis, see also Jarrell, Randall, Works: “The Woman at the Washington Zoo”

Chanute Field (Illinois)

children and childhood, and change, dreams, in “The Elementary Scene,” Freudian views of, in “A Ghost, A Real Ghost,” as inner self, in “Moving,” as point of view, and RJ’s personality, and Wordsworth

Chodorow, Nancy, on Freud, on motherhood, on transference

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Coming Struggle for Power, The. See Strachey, John

companionship, Arendt on, and RJ’s personality

Constance (fictional character)

consultant in poetry. See Library of Congress

consumerism. See gender and gender roles, and consumerism; Jarrell, Randall, Works: “Next Day,” as social criticism; mass culture

conversation. See interchange of speakers; listening; speech in verse style

Corn King and the Spring Queen, The. See Mitchison, Naomi

Criterion (magazine)

cross-writing (in children’s literature)

Cuban missile crisis

Cultural Capital. See Guillory, John

“Dandeen.” See grandparents

David. See Donatello

Davis-Monthan Field (Arizona)

De Blasio, Amy Breyer. See Amy Breyer

Derek (fictional character). See Robbins, Derek

Donatello (sculptor)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

dreams, in The Animal Family, in “The Bronze David,” and children’s identity, critics on RJ’s use of, in “The Elementary Scene,” in “Hope” (1963), and literary history, in “The Lost Children,” in “The Night Before…,” and value

ekphrasis. See visual art

Eliot, T. S.: as critic, as modernist poet, RJ’s psychoanalytic study of, RJ reads. Works: Four Quartets, “Perfect Critic, The,” “Sweeney Erect,” “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” Waste Land, The

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Empson, William: influence on RJ, and Nation. Works: Seven Types of Ambiguity, Structure of Complex Words, The

Eugene Onegin. See Pushkin, Alexander

femininity. See gender and gender roles

Flynn, Richard, on adolescence in RJ, on families in RJ, on The Lost World, on “The Night Before…,” on “Thinking of the Lost World”

folk tales. See fairy tales and folk tales

Freud, Anna: and Dorothy Burlingame (War and Children)

Freud, Sigmund, on death wish, on gender. Works: Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Civilization and Its Discontents, Interpretation of Dreams, The, “Metapsychological Supplement to the Theory of Dreams, A,” “Mourning and Melancholia,” “Observations on Transference Love,” “Recommendations to Physicians Practicing Psychoanalysis,” “Some Psychic Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction Between the Sexes,” Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, Totem and Taboo

Friedenberg, Edgar Z. (The Vanishing Adolescent)

Fromm, Erich, Frost, Robert, in The Bat-Poet, influence on RJ, RJ as critic of. Works: “Directive,” “For Once, Then, Something,” “Home Burial,” “Most of It, The,” “Oven Bird, The”

gender and gender roles, in “The Bronze David,” and consumerism, critics on RJ’s depictions of; in “The Face,” in “A Girl in a Library,” and the interpersonal, and loneliness, in “The Night Before…,” and psychoanalysis, and sociolinguistics, and tomboys, see also families; mothers and motherhood; Oedipus complex

German language and literature, see also Goethe, J. W. von; Rilke, Rainer Maria; Salzburg

Gertrude (fictional character). See Johnson, Gertrude

Gestalt (school of psychology)

ghosts, see also Jarrell, Randall, Works: “A Ghost, A Real Ghost”

Goethe, J. W. von, see also Jarrell, Randall, Works: Faust, Part I

Graff, Gerald (Professing Literature)

graves and grave sites

Greensboro (North Carolina): and Woman’s College, students at

Gregorovius, Ferdinand

Grimm, Brothers: and Grimm’s tales

Grossman, Allen; on closure, on line length, on RJ’s poetry, on time in poetry

Groves of Academe, The. See McCarthy, Mary

Guillory, John (Cultural Capital)

Hammer, Langdon, on professionalism, on “Seele im Raum”

Hartman, Geoffrey: on criticism; on “‘ghostly’ feeling,” on Wordsworth

Herbert, Christopher

Hinchman, Lewis and Sandra

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von. See Strauss, Richard

Hollywood. See California and California locales; see also movies

House Beautiful (magazine)

Hume-Fogg High School

Hyman, Stanley Edgar (The Armed Vision)

interchange of speakers (in verse style)

interpersonal, the (intersubjectivity), and families, in The Lost World, in “Moving,” and personal identity, and psychoanalysis, and reading, and time, see also play; recognition

interruptions (in verse style)

intersubjectivity. See interpersonal, the (intersubjectivity)

Iron Heel, The. See London, Jack

isolation (of modern poet), see also loneliness

Jargon (magazine). See Williams, Jonathan

Jarrell, Anna Campbell (later Regan; RJ’s mother)

Jarrell, Charles (RJ’s brother)

Jarrell, Mackie Langham (RJ’s first wife)

Jarrell, Mary von Schrader, life with RJ, and “The Lost Children,” and “The Meteorite,” and Pictures, and Remembering Randall, on RJ’s early life

Jarrell, Owen (RJ’s father)

Jarrell, Randall: in Army, as children’s writer, creates own verse style, critics on, death of, distinguished from peers, early life, elegies for, first marriage, in Greensboro, identifies with psychoanalysts, at Kenyon, love poems, and long poems, marriage to Mary, in New York City, as poetry critic, as reviewer, as social critic, on soldiers, speech in poetry of, at Vanderbilt, in Washington, D.C., and Wordsworth, see also Arendt, Hannah; Auden, W. H.; children and childhood; Frost, Robert; gender and gender roles; interpersonal, the (intersubjectivity); Jarrell, Mary von S.; Proust, Marcel; readers and reading; Rilke, Rainer Maria; style, in prose; style, in verse; time; value; war and war poems; Wordsworth, William

Anchor Book of Stories

Animal Family, The, critics on

Bat-Poet, The, critics on

Blood for a Stranger

Faust, Part I (Goethe)

Five Young American Poets

Gingerbread Rabbit, The

Letters of Randall Jarrell, The

Little Friend, Little Friend

Pictures from an Institution, and Arendt, and “Field and Forest,” and Mary McCarthy, see McCarthy, Mary; and Sarah Lawrence College, and “Seele im Raum,” and youth

Poetry and the Age

Sad Heart at the Supermarket, A (book)

Selected Poems (1955)

Seven-League Crutches, The

Three Sisters, The (Chekhov)

Woman at the Washington Zoo, The

“Bad Music, The”

“Ballad of the Sheik who Lost his Shine, The” (unpublished)

“Black Swan, The,” critics on, and dreams, repeated words in, sources, and transference

“Bronze David of Donatello, The”

“Carnegie Library, Juvenile Division, The”

“Childhood” (Rilke)

“Children’s Arms,” see Lost World, The (poetic sequence)

“Children Selecting Books in a Library”

“Christmas Roses, The”

“Conversation with the Devil, A”

“Country Life, A”

“Dead Wingman, The”

“Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, The”

“Deutsch Durch Freud”

“Difficult Resolution, The”

“Dream of Waking, The”

“Eighth Air Force”

“Elementary Scene, The”

“Emancipators, The”

“End of the Rainbow, The,” and adolescence, and the interpersonal, and play, and quotations, and value in art

“Esthetic Theories: Art as Expression”

“Field and Forest,” and childhood, and The Lost World

“Field Hospital, A”

“Fir Tree, The.” See “Hope,” 1963 (“To prefer the nest…”)

“From All the Hands…”

“Game at Salzburg, A”

“Ghost, A Real Ghost, A,” critics on, publication history

“Girl in a Library, A”

“Goodbye, Wendover; Goodbye, Mountain Home”

“Grown-Up, The” (Rilke)

“Hope,” 1947 (“The week is dealt…”), “Hope,” 1963 (“To prefer the nest…”)

“Hunt in the Black Forest, A”

“In Nature There Is Neither Right Nor Left Nor Wrong”

“In the Ward: The Sacred Wood”

“Jerome,” “King’s Hunt, The.” See “A Hunt in the Black Forest” “Knight, Death, and the Devil, The”

“Lament of the Children of Israel” (Gregorovius)

“Lonely Man, The”

“Lost Children, The,” critics on

Lost World, The (poetic sequence), and animals, and California, critics on, sources for

“Man In Majesty”

“Man Meets a Woman in the Street, A”

“Man Who Was Born and Died in New York City, The”

“Memoirs of Gl–ckel of Hameln, The”

“Meteorite, The”

“Next Day,” critics on, and “The Face,” and “Gleaning,” and psychoanalysis, and repeated words, as social criticism

“Night Before the Night Before Christmas, The,” and “The Bronze David,” critics on, mirrors in, and quotations, and value

“Night With Lions, A.” See Lost World, The (poetic sequence) “1914”

“90 North,” abstraction in, and “The Christmas Roses,” and modernism, and psychoanalysis, as RJ’s first successful poem, and “Thinking of the Lost World”

“Now night braids with her fingers…” (unpublished)

“Old and the New Masters, The”

“O My Name It Is Sam Hall”

“One Who Was Different, The,” “Orestes at Tauris”

“Orient Express, The”

“Owl’s Bedtime Story, The”

“Patient Leading the Patient, The”

“Perfectly Free Association, A”

“Pilot from the Carrier, A”

“Player Piano, The,” Bishop on, and listening, and “The Lost Children,” and “Moving,” and personal identity, and play, repeated words in

“Prayer at Morning, A”

“Quilt Pattern, A”

“Randall Jarrell Office Hours”

“Sayings of the Bloksberg Post”

“School of Summer, The”

“Second Air Force”

“Seele im Raum,” critics on, and “The Lost Children,” and psychoanalysis, sources

“Sick Nought, The”

“Sleeping Beauty: Variation on the Prince”

“Snow Leopard, The”

“Soldier Walks Under the Trees of the University, The”

“Sphinx’s Riddle to Oedipus, The”

“Street Off Sunset, A.” See Lost World, The (poetic sequence)

“Survivor Among Graves, The”

“Thinking of the Lost World,” and The Lost World

“Times Worsen, The”

“Transient Barracks”

“Unicorn, The” (Rilke)

“Venetian Blind, The”

“What’s the Riddle …”

“When, lit as in a painting …”

“Wide Prospect, The”

“Wild Birds, The”

“Windows,” critics on

“Woman at the Washington Zoo, The,” and gender, as modern reader, RJ’s essay on, and sex, and Washington, D.C.,

“About Popular Culture”

“Against Abstract Expressionism”

“Age of Criticism, The”

“Age of the Chimpanzee, The.” See “Against Abstract Expressionism”

“Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, The”

“Development of Yeats’ Sense of Reality, The”

“End of the Line, The”

“Fifty Years of American Poetry”

“Intellectual in America, The”

introduction to The Man Who Loved Children (Stead)

lectures on Auden (unpublished)

lecture on libraries (unpublished)

“Levels and Opposites”

“Love and Poetry”

“Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg”

National Book Awards address. See “About Popular Culture”

“Obscurity of the Poet, The” prose style in, and reading, and value, on Wordsworth

“Poets, Critics, and Readers”

“Pound Affair, The”

“Reactionary Intellectual, The” (unpublished)

“Robert Frost’s ‘Home Burial,’”

“Sad Heart at the Supermarket, A” (essay)

“Schools of Yesteryear, The”

“Taste of the Age, The”

“Why Particulars Are So Much More Effective Than Generalities” (unpublished)

See also De la Mare, Walter; Frost, Robert; Ransom, John Crowe; Stead, Christina; Stevens, Wallace; Whitman, Walt; Williams, William Carlos

Jerome, Saint. See Jarrell, Randall, Works: “Jerome”

Johnson, Gertrude (fictional character), models for

Kennedy, John Fitzgerald

Kim. See Kipling, Rudyard

Kinzie, Mary, on dreams, on “The Elementary Scene,” on “A Game at Salzburg”

Kipling, Rudyard. Works: Kim, Stalky & Co., “‘They,’”

Knoepflemacher, U. C.,

Langham, Mackie. See Jarrell, Mackie Langham

letters. See mail and mail delivery

lions, club, MGM lion (“Tawny”), Saint Jerome’s

listeners and listening, in The Animal Family, in The Bat-Poet, and Gottfried Rosenbaum, to music, in “The Player Piano,” in psychoanalysis

London, Jack (The Iron Heel)

loneliness, in The Animal Family, and art, in The Bat-Poet, and totalitarianism, and verse style, in “Windows,” see also isolation (of modern poet)

Lonely Crowd, The. See Riesman, David

Los Angeles. See California and California locales

Lost World, The (film), see also Jarrell, Randall, Works: Lost World, The (poetic sequence)

Lost World, The (novel). See Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Louie (fictional character). See Stead, Christina

Lowell, Robert, fame of, at Kenyon College, and psychoanalysis, and Second World War. Works: “Dunbarton,” “For the Union Dead,” “Grandparents,” Life Studies, Lord Weary’s Castle, Mills of the Kavanaughs, The, “Randall Jarrell” (poem)

Lyric Suite. See Berg, Alban

Mademoiselle (magazine)

mail and mail delivery

Man Who Loved Children, The. See Stead, Christina

Marx, Karl, and Marxism, and modernist poetry, in “The Night Before…,” and RJ’s verse style. Works: Communist Manifesto, Capital

masculinity. See gender and gender roles

Masquerader (Vanderbilt humor magazine)

mass culture, and families, and The Lost World, and teenagers

McCarthy, Mary, Groves of Academe, The

meter. See rhythm and meter

mirrors, in “The Bronze David,” critics on, in “A Ghost, A Real Ghost,” in “The Night Before…,” and photographs

“Miss Emily and the Bibliographer,” see Tate, Allen

Mitchison, Naomi (The Corn King and the Spring Queen)

modernism, and dance, and long poems, and time

Morgan, Constance (fictional character). See Constance

mothers and motherhood, in The Animal Family, in The Bat-Poet, Jessica Benjamin on, in “The Night Before…,” in popular culture, in psychoanalysis, see also Jarrell, Anna Campbell (later Regan)

music, see also Haggin, B. H.,

Nashville (Tennessee), Nation (magazine): and Arendt, politics in, RJ as editor at, RJ writes for

New Directions (publisher). See Laughlin, James

New Republic (magazine)

New York Times and New York Times Book Review

Nietzsche, Friedrich

O’Donnell, George Marion

Oedipus complex and oedipal desire, in Berryman and Lowell, in “A Hunt,” and “The Sphinx’s Riddle”

old age. See age, aging, and old age

Organization Man, The. See Whyte, William H.,

Origins of Totalitarianism. See Arendt, Hannah

other-direction, see also Riesman, David

Paul, Saint (apostle)

personal identity (in philosophy), see also recognition

Peter Pan. See Barrie, J. M.,

pets. See cats; dogs; Kitten

play, in “Hope” (1963), in “The Lost Children,” in The Lost World, in “The Player Piano”

politics and political writing, see also liberalism; Marx, Karl, and Marxism

“Pop.” See grandparents

Pound, Ezra, Pisan Cantos

Professing Literature. See Graff, Gerald professions and professionalism, and families, in “Field and Forest,” in “Jerome,” Wolfgang Köhler on

prose style. See style, in prose

Proust, Marcel, on aging, allusions to, on art, and The Lost World and “Thinking of the Lost World,” on recognition, RJ reads

psychoanalysis, and motherhood, and “The Player Piano,” see also Benjamin, Jessica; Chodorow, Nancy; Freud, Sigmund; Klein, Melanie; object relations; Oedipus complex; transference; Winnicott, D. W.,

psychology (experimental)

Pushkin, Alexander (Eugene Onegin)

quotations, in verse style

Rank, Otto, see also birth trauma

Ransom, John Crowe: and Nation, on professionalism, on RJ’s poetry, as RJ’s teacher, thinks RJ Jewish, RJ writes about

Rasmussen, Sona (fictional character)

readers and reading, by children, and dramatic monologue, and mass culture, in Pictures, see also libraries

recognition, in art, in “The Lost Children,” and philosophy, in “The Player Piano,” and psychoanalysis, in Proust, see also Benjamin, Jessica; interpersonal, the (intersubjectivity)

Regan, Anna. See Jarrell, Anna Campbell

repeated words: in “The Black Swan,” critics on, in “Hope” (1963), in “Jerome,” in “The Lost Children,” in The Lost World, in “Next Day,” in “The Night Before…” in “The Player Piano,” in “A Sick Child,” in verse style, in “Well Water,” in “When, as in a painting…”

repetitions. See repeated words

reviewing (of books), see also readers and reading; style, in prose

rhyme and rhyme schemes: in “A Field Hospital,” in The Lost World, in “Moving,” terza rima

Rich, Adrienne, on motherhood, as source for “Gleaning”

Riesman, David (The Lonely Crowd), on adolescence, on art, on RJ

Rilke, Rainer Maria, on childhood. Works: “Archaic Torso of Apollo,” “Childhood,” “Faded,” “Grown-Up, The,” Sonnets to Orpheus, “The Unicorn”

Robbins, Derek (fictional character)

Robbins, Dwight (fictional character)

Romanticism; and childhood

Rosenbaum, Gottfried (fictional character)

Rosenbaum, Irene (fictional character)

Rosenkavalier. See Strauss, Richard

Sarah Lawrence College

science fiction: and aliens, and androids, and The Lost World, RJ as reader of

sculpture, see also visual art

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky

Seminar in American Civilization. See Salzburg

Shakespeare, William. Works: Hamlet, sonnets, Taming of the Shrew, The

Shapiro, Karl: on mass culture, on RJ, as war poet

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Sheppard Field (Texas)

Smith, Barbara Herrnstein, see also closure

social criticism, social, the, and children, and families, and mass culture, and “The Night Before…,” and Pictures, and RJ’s criticism

social psychology (discipline)

soldiers. See war and war poems

Southern Review (journal)

Spacks, Patricia Meyer

specialists and specialization. See professions

speech, in verse style, of children, in “The Christmas Roses,” and psychoanalysis, of soldiers, and time, in “Windows,” and Wordsworth

squirrels, in “The Night Before…”

Stead, Christina (The Man Who Loved Children), Louie (character)

Strachey, John (The Coming Struggle for Power)

Strauss, Richard, Ariadne auf Naxos, Rosenkavalier

style, in verse, Donald Davie on, see also interchange of speakers; interruptions; quotations; repeated words; rhyme; rhythm and meter; speech

Sullivan, Harry Stack

Tatyana Larina (“Tanya”). See Pushkin, Alexander

Taylor, Eleanor Ross, elegy for RJ, A Wilderness of Ladies

teenagers, see also adolescence

Tennessee. See Nashville

terza rima. See Dante; rhyme and rhyme schemes

thanatos. See death wish

time (in poetry), in “Aging,” in “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” in experimental psychology

Tocqueville, Alexis de

translations, see also titles of individual translations under Jarrell, Randall, Works

Understanding Poetry. See Brooks, Cleanth; Warren, Robert Penn

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. See Champaign-Urbana

University of North Carolina-Greensboro. See Greensboro

University of Texas-Austin. See Austin (Texas)

Uses of Enchantment, The. See Bettel-heim, Bruno

value (aesthetic, ethical, philosophical), Köhler on, see also readers and reading

Van den Haag, Ernest

Vanderbilt University

Vanishing Adolescent, The. See Friedenberg, Edgar

verse style. See style, in verse

Von Schrader, Mary. See Jarrell, Mary von Schrader

War and Children. See Freud, Anna

war and war poems, adolescence in, dreams in, and institutions, “Mail Call,” “O My Name It Is Sam Hall,” and value

Warren, Robert Penn, and Nation, Understanding Poetry

Washington, D. C., see also Jarrell, Randall, Works: “Jerome,” “The Woman at the Washington Zoo”; Library of Congress; White House Conference on the Arts

Washington Post (newspaper)

White House Conference on the Arts

Whittaker, Flo (fictional character)

Whittaker, Jerrold (fictional character)

Whittaker, John (fictional character)

Whyte, William H. (The Organization Man)

Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahr (Goethe). See Goethe, J. W. von

Williams, William Carlos. Works: Paterson

Williamson, Alan, on adolescence

Winnicott, D. W., on adolescence, on mirrors, and “Moving,”. Works: “Transitional Objects and Potential Spaces”

Woman’s College (North Carolina). See Greensboro

women. See gender and gender roles

Wordsworth, William, and childhood, and reading, RJ on. Works: Excursion, The, preface to Lyrical Ballads, Prelude, The, “Resolution and Independence,” “Tintern Abbey” (“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”), “We Are Seven”