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Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Jarrell, Randall. Ed(S): Burt, Stephen
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Description for Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
Offer readings of Auden's works and illuminates his use of stylistic registers and poetic genres. This book traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and overwhelmed Auden's poetry. It considers the influence of left-liberal politics, psychoanalytic and evolutionary theory, and Christian theology that characterized Auden's poems of the 1940s. Editor(s): Burt, Stephen. Series: A Columbia University Publication. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
"To read Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden is to read the best-equipped of American critics of poetry of the past century on the best-equipped of its Anglo-American poets, and we rush to read, perhaps, less out of an academic interest in fair judgment than out of a spectator's love of virtuosity in flight." From Adam Gopnik's foreword Randall Jarrell was one of the most important poet-critics of the past century, and the poet who most fascinated and infuriated him was W. H. Auden. In Auden, Jarrell found a crucial poetic influence that needed to be both embraced and ... Read more
"To read Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden is to read the best-equipped of American critics of poetry of the past century on the best-equipped of its Anglo-American poets, and we rush to read, perhaps, less out of an academic interest in fair judgment than out of a spectator's love of virtuosity in flight." From Adam Gopnik's foreword Randall Jarrell was one of the most important poet-critics of the past century, and the poet who most fascinated and infuriated him was W. H. Auden. In Auden, Jarrell found a crucial poetic influence that needed to be both embraced and ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
A Columbia University Publication
Number of Pages
200
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231130783
SKU
V9780231130783
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About Jarrell, Randall. Ed(S): Burt, Stephen
Stephen Burt is assistant professor of English at Macalester College. He is the author of Randall Jarrell and His Age and Popular Music, a collection of poems. His reviews and essays on poetry have appeared in several journals, including the Boston Review, London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.
Reviews for Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden's debut as a poet, in 1928, was the most prodigious since Byron's. When he arrived on the American scene in 1939, he continued to dazzle readers in this country
none more so than Randall Jarrell, who had been reading and admiring him from the start. Auden's triumphal march across the next decade, though, began to disconcert Jarrell, and ... Read more
none more so than Randall Jarrell, who had been reading and admiring him from the start. Auden's triumphal march across the next decade, though, began to disconcert Jarrell, and ... Read more