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Biography of Randall JarrellName: Randall JarrellBirth Date: June 6, 1914 Death Date: October 14, 1965 Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States Nationality: American Gender: Male Occupations: poet, critic Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), poet and critic, was one of the most versatile American men of letters during the two decades immediately after World War II.Randall Jarrell was born June 6, 1914, in Nashville, Tennessee, but spent most of his early years on the West Coast, in Long Beach and Hollywood, California. His troubled, lonely childhood is reflected in some of his most vivid poems. When he was 11 his parents separated, and he lived for a time with his father's parents before joining his mother back in Nashville. He took business courses in high school, but as a student at Vanderbilt he came under the influence of John Crowe Ransom, with Allen Tate and Robert Penn Warren one of the leaders of an earlier Southern poetry renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s.Jarrell's early poetry was largely shaped by a continuing relationship with Ransom. He took bachelor's and master's degrees at Vanderbilt, and …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…cut short when Jarrell was struck and killed by an auto in Greensboro, North Carolina, on October 14, 1965. Further Reading Jarrell's works include, among others, The Complete Poems (1969). His books of criticism include: Poetry and the Age (1953); A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962); and The Third Book of Criticism (1971). Randall Jarrell: 1914-1965 (1967) is a book of personal reminiscences edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. Suzanne Ferguson's The Poetry of Randall Jarrell (1971) is a comprehensive critical assessment. Twenty years after his death his widow, Mary Jarrell, edited Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection (1985). She also publishedRemembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell(1999).Jarrell, Randall, Randall Jarrell's letters: an autobiographical and literary selection, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. Meyers, Jeffrey, Manic power: Robert Lowell and his circle, London; New York: Macmillan London, 1987. Pritchard, William H., Randall Jarrell: a literary life, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990. |