Author


 * __Randall Jarrell__ **

Known as a talented poet, Randall Jarrel worked as a literary critic, a school teacher, and also has released works of his own. He was born in the year 1914 at Nashville, Tennese and was known to have praised both writers, along with critics. Originally, Jarrel graduated from Vanderbilt University, training under famous writers Robet Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom. All of these men ended up proving to be helpful in Jarell's career. Warren and Tate helped publish Jarell's early criticism and poetry, which helped Jarell hit his first teaching job in Kenyon College. Afterwords, he joined the U.S. Air Force in WWII. He only got a chance to pilot a small amount of time, but later he taught people how to fly B-29 bombers. The experiences in the war motivated him to make Little Friend(1945) and Losses(1948), which were one of the finest ranked books to emerge from the war. Most of his literary essays appear in his book Poetry and the Age (1953), and they have changed the critical tastes and trends of the time.

Jarell admired the poetry of Robert Frost, enjoying poems based on sounds and rhythms of American Speech. The collections of Jarell include The Seven-League Crutches (1951) and The Lost World (1965), which focus on childhood innocence. The Woman at the Washington Zoo (1960) is mainly based off age and loneliness. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner are his last experiences in war; very brief but one of Jarell's most famous works.