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No Other Book : Selected Essays by Randall Jarrell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><P>Randall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, <i>No Other Book</i>draws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, "a critic of genius."</p><h3>Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Few have written as compellingly or as memorably about the topics and writers they loved best as American poet, critic and essayist Jarrell (1914-1965). This important collection of 24 essays (plus snippets from over a dozen others) restores much of Jarrell's best nonfiction to print. Jarrell's own poetry still occasions debate, but his essays about poets won admiration from the start. He gained his reputation in the 1940s as a killingly witty reviewer of current verse; some of his most famous barbs get included here. But his real work was detailed, enthusiastic p
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- Author
- Randall Jarrell
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780060956387
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Memoir, Poetry
- Updated
- 2026-03-24