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This is "Randall Jarrell" by Karl Shapiro. That's one great poet being talked about by another Great poet. The book, a 47 page pamphlet, is the published form of a Lecture presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, and published for The Library of Congress. The book was issued with a bibliography of Jarrell materials in the collections of the library of Congress. ******************************************** Randall Jarrell (1914 - 1965), was one of twentieth century America's most prominent poets. Jarrell, a poet largely influenced by Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens , among others, was honored with the National Book Award. Ironically, he is particularly remembered for his satiric novel, "Pictures From an Institution". His poetry will long be read and anthologized. ****************************************** Karl Shapiro (1813 - 2000), another prominent American poet, was once the Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of congress. He was honored with a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945, and the Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1969. Aside from his collected poetry, Shapiro is known for his book, "Essay on Rime", which is Presented in verse format. Randall Jarrell praised Shapiro's poetry, saying : "Karl Shapiro's poems are fresh and young and rash and live; their hard clear outlines, their flat bold colors create a world like that of a knowing and skillful neoprimitive painting, without any of the confusion or profundity of atmosphere, of aerial perspective, but with notable visual and satiric force. The poet early perfected a style, derived from Auden but decidedly individual, which he has not developed in later life but has temporarily replaced with the clear Rilke-like rhetoric of his Adam and Eve poems, the frankly Whitmanesque convolutions of his latest work." ******************************************** In this LOC booklet, Shapiro returns the compliment - in spades. The book starts : "This lecture is not a eulogy, not a memorial, not one of those exercises in objective perception of value for which the age of criticism is justly infamous. Randall Jarrell was not my friend; nor was he my enemy. But he was the poet whose poetry I admired and looked up to most after William Carlos Williams.This I said many times in many ways in my criticism. I praised his poetry more, and more wholeheartedly, than any other of his contemporaries." The lecture is well worth reading. ***************************************** SERIES : Auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund / TITLE : Randall Jarrell / AUTHOR : Karl Shapiro / IMPRINT : Library of Congress / PLACE : Washington DC / DATE : 1967 / STATUS: First Edition / SPECIAL ATTRIBUTES : Contains a Bibliography of Works on and by Jarrell, held by the LOC, and prepared by the General Reference and Bibliography Division and Manuscript Division, Reference Department. / STATUS : OP / DETAILS ; Slim pamphlet; 47 pages; 5 13/16" x 9 1/8"; brown stapled pamphlet with picture of Jarrell and lettering stamped in white on front cover. (2 staples) ****************************************** CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR -- Spine fold is considerably rubbed; slight darkening of color at spine fold; covers display modest surface rub and a touch of vague scratching (on front near top left corner). Text-block edges are toned, else clean. / BINDING -- Solid / INTERIOR -- Paper is lightly toned, else all is clean and free of marking. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2134
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