{"product_id":"randall-jarrell-on-w-h-auden-a-columbia-university-publication-9780231130783","title":"Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (A Columbia University Publication)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRandall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (A Columbia University Publication)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Brooks-Motl, Hannah. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780231130783.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo read Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden is to read the best-equipped of American critics of poetry of the past century on the best-equipped of its Anglo-American poets, and we rush to read, perhaps, less out of an academic interest in fair judgment than out of a spectators love of virtuosity in flight. From Adam Gopniks foreword\n\nRandall 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. During the 1940s, Jarrell wrestled with Audens work, writing a series of notorious articles on Auden that remain admired and controversial examples of devoted and contentious criticism. While Jarrell never completed his proposed book on Auden, these previously unpublished lectures revise and reprise his earlier articles and present new insights into Audens work. Delivered at Princeton University in 1951 and 1952, Jarrells lectures reflect a passionate appreciation of Audens work, a witty attack from an informed opponent, and an important document of a major poets reception.\n\nJarrells lectures offer readings of many of Audens works, including all of his long poems, and illuminate his singular use of a variety of stylistic registers and poetic genres. In the lecture based on the article Freud to Paul, Jarrell traces the ideas and ideologies that animated and, at times, overwhelmed Audens poetry. More precisely, he considers the influence of left-liberal politics, psychoanalytic and evolutionary theory, and the idiosyncratic Christian theology that characterized Audens poems of the 1940s.\n\nWhile an admiring and sympathetic reader, Jarrell does not avoid identifying Audens poetic failures and political excesses. He offers occasionally blistering assessments of individual poems and laments Audens turn from a cryptic, feeling, impassioned poet to a rhetorical, self-conscious one. Stephen Burts introduction provides a backdrop to the lectures and their reception and importance for the history of modern poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44964428513333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0231130783","price":42.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780231130783_2decda51-a124-4606-9053-a2d4b77f2e9b.jpg?v=1781383593","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/randall-jarrell-on-w-h-auden-a-columbia-university-publication-9780231130783","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}