Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was an American author. His works include Selected Poems (1955) and The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960). He won a National Book Award for The Woman at the Washington Zoo.[1]
Life and Works
Jarrell was born on June 6, 1914 in Nashville but spent many years living a troubled childhood in California.[2] He taught for a year at Princeton University and University of Illinois, and worked as a poetry consultant for the Library of Congress [3] He also gained a reputation as a literary critic, and many of his columns were meant to attack the works of other poets.[4]
Beginning to write most of his poetry, he served in the Air Force in World War Two, which brought along many war poems as well as satires of his own academic setting.[5] His poems were introduced during the war in Blood For a Stranger (1942) and Little Friend, Little Friend (1945).[6] He continued to write extensive criticism of poetry and poetry of criticism of childhood in Poetry and the Age (1953), A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962), and The Third Book of Criticism (1969).[7]
He died October 14, 1965, in a car accident as an alcoholic who may have been suicidal.[8]
In 1996, Jarrell was inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.[9]
See also
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.
- ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/randall-jarrell
- ↑ https://www.poemhunter.com/randall-jarrell/
- ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/randall-jarrell
- ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/randall-jarrell
- ↑ https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/randall-jarrell
- ↑ "Jarrell, Randall". Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
- ↑ http://www.vqronline.org/essay/death-randall-jarrell
- ↑ http://www.nclhof.org/inductees/1996-2/randall-jarrell/
External links
- Poems of Randall Jarrell
- Extensive Biography of Randall Jarrell