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14 mag 2024 · This scornful novel is the summa of Randall Jarrell’s values and ideas about education, music, art and literature. The title of the novel echoes Modest Mussorgsky’s musical depiction of ten paintings in Pictures at an Exhibition (1874), and also foreshadows the abstract paintings in the “Art Night” chapter.
4 mag 2024 · Imaging 04/03. Dave Nicholson. By Jim Schlosser Staff Writer. Mary Jarrell, who spent more than 40 years after her husband Randall Jarrell’s death making sure he was remembered as an...
12 ore fa · Rhodes Scholarship, Bollingen Prize for Poetry, National Book Award. John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor ...
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7 mag 2024 · Then he says - what shall I have him say? "This letter says that you are president. Of - this word here; it's a republic." Tell them I can't answer right away. "It's your duty ." No, I'd rather just be sick. Then he tells me there are letters saying everything. That I can think of that I want for them to say. I say, "Well, thank you very much.
2 giorni fa · The Black Swan. When the swans turned my sister into a swan. I would go to the lake, at night, from milking: The sun would look out through the reeds like a swan, A swan's red beak; and the beak would open. And inside there was darkness, the stars and the moon. Out on the lake, a girl would laugh. "Sister, here is your porridge, sister,"
10 mag 2024 · When in Randall Jarrell’s Pictures from an Institution, a college president is accused of being a hypocrite, the novel’s narrator retorts that the description is grossly unfair. After all, the ...
24 apr 2024 · Helen Vendler 1933-2024. ‘It is Vendler’s supreme critical virtue,’ Tom Paulin wrote in the LRB in 1998, reviewing Helen Vendler’s book The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ‘that she can write from inside a poem, as if she is in the workshop witnessing its making.’. A professor of English at Harvard for several decades, Vendler, who ...
