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Word Count
100,000 words, Guess
Page Count
400 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivenootherbookselec0000jarr
- ISBN-100060956380
- ISBN-139780060956387
- Goodreads80985
- Library of Congress Control Number98055353
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- OCLC Control Number44487394
- Better World Books9780060956387
- Open LibraryOL7285564M
Classifications
- LCCPN511
- LCCPS3519.A86 A6 1999
- DDC809
Description
As a critic, Jarrell was chiefly interested in poetry, but his wide and avid circle of readers extended well beyond poets and students of verse. He attracted fans who wanted to hear what he had to say about anything - which was precisely what he offered them: he wrote about music criticism and abstract painting, about the appeal of sports cars and the role of the intellectual in modern American life, about forgotten novels and contemporary trends in education. Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. He saw himself chiefly as a poet, but in addition to a number of books of poetry he left behind a comic novel (Pictures from an Institution), four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters. And he left four collections of essays, from each of which the present volume draws.
First Sentence
WHEN I WAS ASKED TO TALK about the Obscurity of the Modern Poet I was delighted, for I have suffered from this obscurity all my life.
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