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The Roots Of Jarrell's Concerns With Childhood Are In His Own Youth, Says Flynn. Including New Information Gathered In Interviews With Jarrell's Wife And Others Close To Him, Flynn Begins His Study By Examining Jarrell's Unhappy Upbringing. After Discussing The Poet's Precocity, His Parents' Divorce, And Other Aspects Of His Boyhood, Flynn Relates Them To Jarrell's Writings. The First Full-length Study Of Childhood As A Vital Key To Understanding Jarrell's Life And Work, This Book Is An Engaging Portrayal Of The Artist Who Devoted Himself To Preserving What He Felt Was Not Our Most Innocent But Rather Our Truest Age. --book Jacket. In Thee, Thou Once A Child, In Thee -- The Elementary Scene -- The Inadequate Comforter -- Pictures From An Adolescent Institution -- Alas! Eternity -- Happy Families Are All Invented -- The Lost World Of Childhood -- Thinking Of The Lost World. Richard Flynn. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [151]-162) And Index.

Author

Richard Flynn

Publisher

Athens: University of Georgia Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820312439

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities