{"product_id":"randall-jarrell-and-his-age-9780231125949","title":"Randall Jarrell and His Age","description":"\u003cp\u003eRandall Jarrell (19141965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet  comic novelist  translator  childrens book author  and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop  Robert Lowell  Hannah Arendt  and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960 National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell  Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist.  Burts book examines all of Jarrells work  incorporating new research based on previously undiscovered essays and poems. Other books have examined Jarrells poetry in biographical or formal terms  but none have considered both his aesthetic choices and their social contexts. Beginning with an overview of Jarrells life and loves  Burt argues that Jarrells poetry responded to the political questions of the 1930s  the anxieties and social constraints of wartime America  and the apparent prosperity  domestic ideals  and professional ideology that characterized the 1950s. Jarrells work is peopled by helpless soldiers  anxious suburban children  trapped housewives  and lonely consumers. Randall Jarrell and His Age situates the poet-critic among his peersincluding Bishop  Lowell  and Arendtin literature and cultural criticism. Burt considers the ways in which Jarrells efforts and achievements encompassed the concerns of his time  from teen culture to World War II to the Cuban Missile Crisis; the book asks  too  how those efforts might speak to us now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651732103221,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231125941","price":85.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231125949.jpg?v=1781838511","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/randall-jarrell-and-his-age-9780231125949","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}