Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection

By Randall Jarrell and Mary Jarrell

Book Overview

In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell's letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which was withheld during Taylor's lifetime. Taylor was, along with Robert Lowell, Jarrell's oldest and closest friend, and the inclusion of these incomparable letters adds another dimension of friendship, artistry, and intellect to a collection already noted for its behind-the-scenes glimpse of twentieth-century American literary history in the making.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395344050
• ISBN13: 9780395344057
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher