Randall Jarrell
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
The fourth and final collection of Jarrell's essays and reviews reflects all the facets of the poet's talent. It contains virtually all the criticism that wasn't collected in the previous three volumes, Poetry and the Age (1953), A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962), and The Third Book of Criticism (1969). Its subjects range from poetry criticism to Ernie Pyle as a war reporter and the joy of owning a sports car.
7) The bat-poet
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Language
English
Description
A bat who can't sleep days makes up poems about the woodland creatures he now perceives for the first time.
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Language
English
Description
"Randall Jarrell was the critic whose taste defined American poetry after World War II. Poetry and the Age, his first collection of criticism, was published in 1953 and has become a classic of American letters. In this new edition, two long-lost lectures by Jarrell have been added. Recently discovered by critics, they speak to issues at the heart of Jarrell's criticism the structure of poetry and the question "Is American poetry American?" Poetry...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Olga, Masha, and Irina, warm and cultured young sisters who were reared in the exciting hubbub of Moscow, but have been living in the dull, gossipy backwaters of Russia for far too long. With their father's passing, and the ordinary grip of day-to-day life slowly suffocating them, the urge to return to the city with its rich and exciting life rises to a fever pitch.
Author
Series
Atheneum paperbacks volume 66
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1964
Language
English
Description
After her husband is lost at sea, a lonely widow finds solace in the arms of his best friend. But this second chance at love takes a strange twist when the long-lost husband unexpectedly returns ...
16) Fly by night
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1976
Language
English
Description
During the night while everyone sleeps, a little boy floats up from his bed and flies through the house and the countryside beyond.
