Selected Poems (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Jarrell, Randall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374530882 ISBN 13: 9780374530884

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, 2007

Synopsis

Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during the Second World War to the domestic scenes he wrote about so movingly in his final book, The Lost World, Jarrell's poems are marked throughout by a voice that could be astonishingly intimate or could open up to speak to our common humanity. This collection, prepared by William H. Pritchard, presents some of Jarrell's finest poems to a new generation of readers.

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About the Authors

Randall Jarrell, born in 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee, was a prolific and widely respected poet, critic, translator, and fiction writer. A friend and contemporary to Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Jarrell received the National Book Award (amid other honors) for his verse. He also served as U.S. Poet Laureate. Jarrell died in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 1965.

William H. Pritchard edited Selected Poems from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Edition details

• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374530882
• ISBN 13: 9780374530884
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Pritchard Henry Clay Folger Professor Of English William H