Randall Jarrell

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Born:
Dec. 15, 1914
Died:
Dec. 15, 1965

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Randall Jarrell jə-REL (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate of the United States. Among other honors, Jarrell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the years 1947–48; a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, in 1951; and the National Book Award for Poetry, in 1961.

Books by Randall Jarrell

Louisa May Alcott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Sinclair Lewis, Dorothy Parker, Denise Levertov, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Tom Wolfe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, Kurt Vonnegut, N. Scott Momaday, Ray Bradbury, William Carlos Williams, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, Jacques Barzun, Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Galway Kinnell, Willa Cather, Flannery O'Connor, Eugenia Collier, Henry David Thoreau, Walter Blair, Henry James, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Irwin Shaw, Bret Harte, Leslie Marmon Silko, Lewis Thomas, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, George Santayana, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, O. Henry, Lawson Fusao Inada, Langston Hughes, Cotton Mather, Herman Melville, Morris Bishop, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, E.B. White, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Walker, Lorraine Hansberry, James E. Miller, Isaac Asimov, William Faulkner, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Chief Joseph, Paul Farmer, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Eugene O'Neill, Eudora Welty, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Edith Wharton, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard Augustine De Voto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, William Saroyan, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Sylvia Plath, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg, Conrad Richter, Carson McCullers, Vannevar Bush, Richard Rodriguez, Robert Lowell, Robert Anderson, Patrick F. McManus, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, Pearl S. Buck, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, William Least Heat Moon, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thornton Wilder: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company) 3 stars

The United States in Literature

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Randall Jarrell: Poetry and the age (2001, University Press of Florida) No rating

Poetry and the age

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Randall Jarrell: Pictures from an institution (1986, University of Chicago Press) No rating

Pictures from an institution

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Christina Stead, Randall Jarrell: Man Who Loved Children (1976, Holt & Company, Henry)

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Man Who Loved Children

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Randall Jarrell: The animal family (1996) 4 stars

The animal family

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Randall Jarrell: The Complete Poems (1981, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 3 stars

The Complete Poems

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Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Rita Dove, Anna Quindlen, Sojourner Truth, Anonymous, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jack London, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, Tom Wolfe, Simon J. Ortiz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joni Mitchell, Patrick Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, N. Scott Momaday, William Carlos Williams, Richard Lederer, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Willa Cather, Julia Alvarez, Henry David Thoreau, John Wesley Powell, Joy Harjo, Bailey White, Adrienne Rich, Tim O'Brien, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, Katherine Anne Porter, Bret Harte, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, Grace Paley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Crane, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Herman Melville, Joel, Billy., Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, Arthur Miller, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Larry McMurtry, Amy K. Duer, John F. Kennedy, Christopher Columbus, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, Darryl Babe Wilson, John Smith, Edward Taylor, Steve Wulf, Phillis Wheatley, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, William Faulkner, Robert Hayden, Stephen Foster, George Cooper, Robert E. Lee, Goss, Warren Lee, McKim, Randolph H., Stonewall Jackson, William Bradford, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Molly Moore, Miriam Davis Colt, Anne Bradstreet, James Cloyd Bowman, Phillis Wheatley, Ricardo Sanchez, Ernest Hemingway, John Hersey, William Cullen Bryant, John Updike, Bernard Malamud, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, Margaret Fuller, Chief Joseph, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Flannery Oconnor, Diana Chang, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stevens, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Garret Hongo, E. L. Doctorow, Colleen McElroy, Ian Frazier, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Roethke, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Anne Tyler, Edith Wharton, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Martin Espada, Sylvia Plath, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Jonathan Edwards, Amy Tan, Carson McCullers, Meriwether Lewis, Robert Lowell, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Hardcover, 1999, Prentice Hall) 4 stars

Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

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Brothers Grimm, Lore Segal, Jacob Grimm, Maurice Sendak, Randall Jarrell: The Juniper tree (2003, Farrar Straus Giroux) No rating

The Juniper tree

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Randall Jarrell: Randall Jarrell's book of stories (2002, New York Review Books, Distributed by Publishers Group West) No rating

Randall Jarrell's book of stories

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Thomas Jefferson, Martin Buber, Robinson Jeffers, Victor Hernández Cruz, Mark Twain, Washington Irving, H. D., Nathaniel Hawthorne, Abraham Lincoln, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, Art Buchwald, Emily Dickinson, James E. Miller, Jr., O'Neill, Robert., Esther Edwards, Phyllis Wheatley, William Bartram, James Wilson Pennington, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Prudencio De Pereda, Americo Paredes, Donald A. Stauffer, Spencer, Theodore, Luis Munoz Marin, Allen Tate, Robert Earl Hayden, Michael Harper, Robert Davis, Robert Creeley, Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, George Santayana, Ambrose Bierce, Kenneth Fearing, Edgar Allan Poe, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, Langston Hughes, Herman Melville, Martin Luther King Jr., Donald Barthelme, E.B. White, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marianne Moore, Amiri Baraka, Margaret Walker, John Smith, Henry Dumas, Robert Hayden, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, John Ciardi, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Ernest Hemingway, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Updike, James Russell Lowell, Sidney Lanier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T. S. Eliot, Richard Wright, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, James Weldon Johnson, Eudora Welty, John Crowe Ransom, Claude McKay, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, Robert Fitzgerald, Theodore Roethke, Richard Eberhart, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Edith Wharton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Benjamin Franklin, Henry Timrod, Stephen Vincent Benét, Vachel Lindsay, James Wright, Jesse Stuart, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1976, Scott, Foresman and Company) No rating

The United States in Literature

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Thomas Jefferson, Abigail Adams, Rita Dove, Erdoes, Richard, Edward Albee, Anna Quindlen, Sojourner Truth, Anonymous, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jack London, Mark Twain, H. D., Washington Irving, Tom Wolfe, Simon J. Ortiz, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joni Mitchell, Patrick Henry, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Abraham Lincoln, N. Scott Momaday, William Carlos Williams, Richard Lederer, Robert E. Lee, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich, James Baldwin, Alex Haley, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Willa Cather, Julia Alvarez, Flannery O'Connor, Henry David Thoreau, Martín Espada, John Wesley Powell, Joy Harjo, Bailey White, Tim O'Brien, Sherwood Anderson, Alice Walker, Katherine Anne Porter, Bret Harte, Robert E. Lee, Ezra Pound, Frederick Douglass, Grace Paley, Naomi Shihab Nye, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Yusef Komunyakaa, Stephen Crane, Tennessee Williams, A. R. Ammons, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Maxine Hong Kingston, Herman Melville, Joel, Billy., Louise Erdrich, Martin Luther King Jr., John Smith, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Penn Warren, Annie Dillard, Arthur Miller, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kate Chopin, Marianne Moore, Angela De Hoyos, Garrett Hongo, Larry McMurtry, Amy K. Duer, John F. Kennedy, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, Darryl Babe Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Edward Taylor, Christopher Columbus, John Smith, Steve Wulf, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Emily Saliers, Stephen Foster, George Cooper, William Faulkner, Goss, Warren Lee, Olaudah Equiano, Robert Hayden, Stonewall Jackson, McKim, Randolph H., Joseph Bruchac, William Bradford, Miriam Davis Colt, Molly Moore, Diana Chang, Anne Bradstreet, Colleen McElroy, Ricardo Sanchez, Rev. Henry M. Turner, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Ernest Hemingway, William Cullen Bryant, John Hersey, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bernard Malamud, James Russell Lowell, John Updike, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Cloyd Bowman, Margaret Fuller, Chief Joseph, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, T. S. Eliot, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Countee Cullen, Flannery Oconnor, Eugene O'Neill, Wallace Stevens, Eudora Welty, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Garret Hongo, E. L. Doctorow, Lillian Hellman, Ian Frazier, Joyce Carol Oates, Theodore Roethke, Washington Matthews, Phillis Wheatley, Michael J. Caduto, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, Anne Tyler, Edith Wharton, Jean Toomer, Benjamin Franklin, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Martin Espada, Sylvia Plath, Abigail Adams Smith, Amos Bronson Alcott, Mary Chesnut, Alfonso Ortiz, Arthur C. Parker, Jonathan Edwards, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Amy Tan, William Safire, Meriwether Lewis, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, James Thurber, Thomas Paine, Carl Sandburg, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Thomas Wolfe, Kate Kinsella, W. H. Auden, Edgar Lee Masters, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thornton Wilder: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes (Hardcover, 2005, Prentice Hall) 4 stars

Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes

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Randall Jarrell: The Bat-Poet (Hardcover, Tandem Library) 5 stars

The Bat-Poet

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