Alex Ross: The music of fictional composers. Aug 17, 2009
Discusses Randall Jarrell s 1954 academic satire Picture from an Institution, which signaled a change in how novelists depicted composers and classical music. Contemporary novelists tend to see this world in tragicomic terms. (New Yorker)
‘Secret Son’: A tale of faith, family, and betrayal Aug 3, 2009
Randall Jarrell once defined the novel as a prose work of some length that has something wrong with it, and what s wrong with this one is the writing. That s a surprise, as Lalami s debut novel, Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, had shown a seemingly natural grace. (Boston Globe)
Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another L... Jun 25, 2009
Unlike his contemporaries Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and others, Schwartz is not an important figure in the poetry world today. It could be argued that Berryman, with his postmodern, playful sense of poetry s potentiality and scope, is the most influential of the group. (Suite101.com)
Poet win $100,000 prize for lifetime achievement Apr 15, 2009
The foundation also awarded a 10,000 prize for criticism, the Randall Jarrell Award, to 39-year-old Ange Mlinko, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation and on the Poetry Foundation Web site. On the Net. (Jefferson City News Tribune, MO)
Poet W.D. Snodgrass dies at 83 Feb 7, 2009
Instead, he drifted into some poetry classes and studied with such greats as John Crowe Ransom, Karl Shapiro, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell. After receiving two master's degrees in writing, Snodgrass embarked in 1955 on a nearly 40-year teaching career, which included stints at Cornell University, the University of Rochester, Wayne State University, Old Dominion University and, from 1968 to 1977, Syracuse University. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
