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Article: The middle generation: the lives and poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.
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- National Review
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- March 27, 1987
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The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell
by Bruce Bawer (Archon, 216 pp., $25)
BAWER'S UNEVEN first book, a literarystudy based on a dissertation and apparently completed in 1983, is less lively and sophisticated than his recent reviews in The New Criterion. He has noted the biographical similarities in a group of talented American poets who began to publish during World War II and "were erratic, driven to pathological excesses in behavior by an assortment of secret agonies. Profound pain filled much of their lives and informed much of their work.'
All four poets were ...
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Article: Randall Jarrell
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...Randall Jarrell Randall Jarrell (1914-1965), poet and critic, was one of the most versatile ... letters during the two decades immediately after World War II. Randall Jarrell was born June 6, 1914, in Nashville, Tennessee, but spent ...
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