Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during the Second World War to the domestic scenes he wrote about so movingly in his final book, The Lost World, Jarrell's poems are marked throughout by a voice that could be astonishingly intimate or could open up to speak to our common humanity. This collection, prepared by William H. Pritchard, presents some of Jarrell's finest poems to...
Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, on...
American literary life has been enriched over the past generation by habits of criticism practiced at Amherst College during the tenure of William H. Pritchard. These essays, which were commissioned as a tribute to Pritchard, celebrate his fortieth year at Amherst and demonstrate the breadth of his influence in the fields of theory, criticism, and pedagogy. The occasion of forty years of teaching at Amherst by William H. Pritchard, the renowned critic of Frost, Jarrell, and many others, has generated a remarkable collection of essays by former students, colleagues, and friends. The...
American literary life has been enriched over the past generation by habits of criticism practiced at Amherst College during the tenure of William H. ...
Biography of Robert Frost examines the most interesting and significant aspects of Frost's life and poetry and offers an attentive, sensitive portrait of an artist whose critical reputation continues to grow.
Biography of Robert Frost examines the most interesting and significant aspects of Frost's life and poetry and offers an attentive, sensitive portrait...
By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms -- novel, poem, and short story -- he would continue to explore with steadily expanding skill and authority. For the next four decades his literary career would realize itself primarily in these three forms, but also in essays, reviews, and memoirs, and in resourceful commentary on his own work -- the stuff of many interviews and prefaces. In this book, William H. Pritchard offers not a biography, but an insightful portrait of the writer and his work.
By the age of twenty-eight, John Updike had already been published in the three major forms -- novel, poem, and short story -- he would continue to...
William Pritchard s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin, answered an interviewer s question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, Oh, for Christ s sake, one doesn t study poets You read them, andthink: That s marvelous; how is it done? Although Pritchard has been talking with students about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkin s question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way it s...
William Pritchard s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of...
William Pritchard s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of the last century. One of them, Philip Larkin, answered an interviewer s question about what he had learned from his study of other poets by snapping back, Oh, for Christ s sake, one doesn t study poets You read them, and think: That s marvelous; how is it done? Although Pritchard has been talking with students about poets for more than fifty years, his practice in writing has Larkin s question in mind: how to describe convincingly the way it s...
William Pritchard s collection of essays and reviews on poets and poetry ranges from Dryden and Milton through the major American and British poets of...
