Ashamed of the Planet
Ian Hamilton, 2 March 2000
No Other Book: Selected Essays
by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser.
HarperCollins, 376 pp., $27.50, June 1999,0 06 118012 2 Show More
by Randall Jarrell, edited by Brad Leithauser.
HarperCollins, 376 pp., $27.50, June 1999,
Remembering Randall: A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell
by Mary vonSchrader Jarrell.
HarperCollins, 173 pp., $22, June 1999,0 06 118011 4 Show More
by Mary vonSchrader Jarrell.
HarperCollins, 173 pp., $22, June 1999,
“... In April 1965, Randall Jarrell’s just published book of verse, The Lost World, was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review by Joseph Bennett. Bennett quite liked four of the poems but the rest of them, he said, were ‘taken up with Jarrell’s familiar, clanging vulgarity, corny clichés, cutenesses, and the intolerable self-indulgence of his tear-jerking bourgeois sentimentality ... ”
