Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrellwas an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 May 1914
CountryUnited States of America
book taken rome
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship, a Kenyon Review fellowship, and the Prix de Rome, it is hard to remember what chances the poet took in that small-town world, how precariously hand-to-mouth his existence was. And yet in one way the old days were better; [Vachel] Lindsay after a while, by luck and skill, got far more readers than any poet could get today.
art book wife
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.
children book heart
And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.
baby book men
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.
adjusted environment president
President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.
became clay dirty dressed future housewives pine red southern stare
The Southern past, the Southern present, the Southern future became one of red clay pine barrens, of chain-gang camps, of housewives dressed in flour sacks who stare all day dully down into dirty sinks.
american-poet partisan paul review thinks
He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
except feels united
In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
entertain home life rest
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life
blind date stood
The blind date that has stood you up: your life.
obvious
One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.
ball belly black death dream fell flak fur miles nightmare six until washed wet woke
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
except feels free pearl united
In the United States, there one feels free . . . Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
speak
We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.