No Other Book

by Jarrell, Randall

• ISBN13: 9780060956387
• ISBN10: 0060956380
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

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, No Other Bookdraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, "a critic of genius."

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
POETS AND POETRY
The Obscurity of the Poet	3	(16)
To the Laodiceans	19	(23)
Robert Frost's ``Home Burial,''	42	(25)
Paterson	67	(9)
William Carlos Williams
An Introduction to the Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams	76	(8)
A Note on Poetry	84	(5)
The Woman at the Washington Zoo	89	(9)
Some Lines from Whitman	98	(14)
Reflections on Wallace Stevens	112	(11)
Her Shield	123	(16)
Contemporary Poetry Criticism	139	(7)
Texts from Housman	146	(10)
Graves and the White Goddess	156	(23)
Love and Poetry	179	(7)
Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden's Poetry	186	(22)
From the Kingdom of Necessity	208	(8)
Poets, Critics, and Readers	216	(14)
Fifty Years of American Poetry	230	(25)
A JARRELL GALLERY	255	(26)
THE REST OF IT
The Age of Criticism	281	(17)
On Preparing to Read Kipling	298	(15)
The Taste of the Age	313	(16)
Against Abstract Expressionism	329	(5)
An Unread Book	334	(29)
A Sad Heart at the Supermarket	363