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Randall Jarrell

Bibliography

Primary Works

    • Blood for a Stranger.New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1942.

 

    • Little Friend, Little Friend.New York: Dial Press, 1945.

 

    • Losses.New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948.

 

    • Poetry and the Age.New York: Knopf, 1953.

 

    • Pictures from an Institution.New York: Knopf, 1954.

 

    • The Woman at the Washington Zoo.New York: Atheneum, 1960.

 

    • A Sad Heart at the Supermarket; Essays & Fables.New York: Atheneum, 1962.

 

    • The Bat-Poet.Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

 

    • The Gingerbread Rabbit.New York: Macmillan, 1964.

 

    • The Lost World.New York: Macmillan, 1965.

 

    • The Animal Family.Decorations by Maurice Sendak. NY: Pantheon Books, 1965.

 

    • The Third Book of Criticism.NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.

 

    • Fly by Night.New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.

 

    • Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964.NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

    • Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection.Edited by Mary Jarrell; assisted by Stuart Wright. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

 

    • No Other Book: Selected Essays.Edited by Brad Leithauser. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1999.

 

    • The Bat-Poet.Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

 

    • The Complete Poems.New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1969.

 

    • Jerome: The Biography of a Poem.New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.(With woodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Durer)

 

    • Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs.New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972. (A tale from the Brothers Grimm translated by Randall Jarrell. Pictures by Nancy Ekholm Burkert)

 

    • A Bat Is Born.Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1978 [1964].(Illustrated by John Schoenherr)

 

Biographies and Memoirs

    • Adams, Charles M. Randall Jarrell, A Bibliography.Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958.

 

    • Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection.Mary Jarrell, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

 

    • Pritchard, William H. Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life.NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

 

    • Simpson, Eileen B. Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir.New York: Random House, 1982.

 

Criticism

    • Bawer, Bruce. The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1986.

 

    • Bawer, Bruce. "The Enigma of Randall Jarrell."New Criterion 8.9 (May 1990): 30-40.

 

    • Beck, Charlotte H. The Dramatic Mode in the Poetry of Randall ]arrell.Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1972.

 

    • Bergman, David. "Disturbing Randall Jarrell."American Literary History 16.2 (Sumr 2004): 350-62.

 

    • Burt, Stephen. "Randall Jarrell: The Mirror and the Nest."Metre 9 (2001): 74-84.

 

    • Burt, Stephen. Randall Jarrell and His Age.New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

 

    • Bryant. J. A.,Jr. Understanding Randall Jarrell.Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.

 

    • Chappell, Fred. "The Indivisible Presence of Randall Jarrell."North Carolina Literary Review 1.1 (Sumr 1992): 8-13.

 

    • Cyr, Marc D. "Randall Jarrell's Answerable Style: Revision of Elegy in 'The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner'." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 46.1 (Sprg 2004): 92-106.

 

    • Damashek, Richard. The Lost World of Randall Jarrell.Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1972.

 

    • Flynn, Richard. Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood.Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1990.

 

    • Ferguson, Suzanne. The Poetry of Randall Jarrell.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1971.

 

    • Ferguson, Suzanne. ed. Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, and Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context.Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2003.

 

    • Ferguson, Suzanne. Critical Essays on Randall Jarrell.Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.

 

    • Fowler, Russell. "Randall Jarrell's 'Eland': A Key to Motive and Technique in His Poetry".Iowa Review 5 (Spring 1974): 113-126.

 

    • Griswold, Jerome. The Children's Books of Randall Jarrell.Athens; University of Georgia Press, 1988.

 

    • Heep, Hartmut. A Different Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke's American Translators Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Robert Bly.New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

 

    • Hoffman, Frederick J. The Achievement of Randall Jarrell.Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1970.

 

    • Jacobson, Kent A. Randall Jarrell: In Search of Authority.Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1975.

 

    • Leithauser, Brad. "'No Other Book': Randall Jarrell's Criticism."New Criterion 17.8 (Apr 1999): 19-27.

 

    • Longenbach, James. "Randall Jarrell's Semifeminine Mind."Southwest Review 81.3 (Sumr 1996): 368-86.

 

    • Longenbach, James. "Randall Jarrell's Legacy."Literary Imagination 5.2 (Sprg 2003): 358-68.

 

    • Lowell, Robert, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren., eds. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.

 

    • McDonald, Gail. "Sentimental Education: Randall Jarrell among the Women."Modernism/Modernity 5.1 (Jan 1998): 1-21.

 

    • Nemerov, Howard."Jarrell's Complete Poems", Kenyon Review 31, n. 4 (1969): 570-573.

 

    • Pritchard, William H. Randall Jarrell: a Literary Life.NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.

 

    • Quinn, Bernetta. Randall Jarrell.Boston: Twayne, 1981.

 

    • Rosenthal, M. L. Randall Jarrell.Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1972.

 

    • Shapiro. Karl. Randall Jarrell.Washington: Library of Congress, 1967.

 

    • Thomas, Joseph T. "'Levels and Opposites' in Randall Jarrell's The Bat Poet."Children's Literature Association Quarterly 27.1 (Sprg 2002): 6-26.

 

    • Travisano, Thomas. "Randall Jarrell's Poetics: A Rediscovered Milestone."Georgia Review 50.4 (Wint 1996): 691-96.

 

    • Travisano, Thomas. Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia, 1999.

 

    • Vardamis, Alex A. "Randall Jarrell's Poetry of Aerial Warfare."War, Literature, and the Arts 2.1 (Sprg 1990): 63-82.

 

    • Williamson, Alan. "Jarrell, the Mother, the Märchen."Twentieth Century Literature 40.3 (Fall 1994): 283-99.