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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 resisted.
11 mag 2005 · Overview. Contents. About this book. Jarrell's witty, pointed, and long-lost lectures trace the evolution of Auden's style from the late 1920s to the early 1950s and examine the ideas and contexts that animated his poetry, including psychoanalysis, leftist politics, and Christian theology.
Randall Jarrell on W.H. Auden. by. Randall Jarrell. Publication date. 2005. Topics. Auden, W. H. 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation. Publisher. Columbia University Press.
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...
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1 feb 2006 · Unfortunately, there is no W. H. Auden on Randall Jarrell. Auden had met Jarrell and read his poetry, but he didn't attend these lectures. What we do have is Auden's reaction to Jarrell's criticisms: ‘one celebrated memoir has him telling Stephen Spender, “Jarrell is in love with me” ’ (p. 13).
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During the spring of 1952, before an invited audience at Princeton, Randall Jarrell delivered six lectures on the poetry, prose, and career of W. H. Auden. These previously unpublished lectures are at once a passionate appreciation, a witty attack from an informed opponent, an important document of a major poet’s reception, and a key to ...
Jarrell followed Ransom, his mentor, to Kenyon College where he roomed with the young Robert Lowell and read in manuscript the poems that would become Lord Weary’s Castle. Lowell was to be one of the poets—along with Elizabeth Bishop, W.H. Auden, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost —that Jarrell wrote about most often.