Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell

Randall Jarrell (May 6, 1914 October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, novelist, and the 11th Consultant in Poetry to...

The Gingerbread Rabbit

The Bat-poet

The Lost World

The Bat-Poet

The Gingerbread Rabbit

The Gingerbread Rabbit

No Other Book

No Other Book

The Juniper Tree: And Other Tales from Grimm

Back in Print!Originally published as a two-volume set forty years ago, The Juniper Tree is distinguished first by the selection of stories. Lore Segal and Maurice Sendak jointly culled 27 from the 210 in the complete collection, and their contents page presents a fascinating critical statement. The...

The Bat-Poet

There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days—he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his...

The Animal Family (Michael Di Capua Books)

This is the story of how, one by one, a man found himself a family. Almost nowhere in fiction is there a stranger, dearer, or funnier family -- and the life that the members of The Animal Familylive together, there in the wilderness beside the sea, is as extraordinary and as enchanting as the family...

No Other Book: Selected Essays

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 co...

Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (Phoenix Fiction)

Beneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women’s college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell’s classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new sta...

Celestial Navigator: Writing Poems with Randall Jarrell

Poetry and the Age

About Poetry and the Age:"Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review"Randall Jarrell’s book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The reader is exhilarated, ...

Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin—this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to illuminate in this extraordinary book. Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with som...