Bibliography
Primary Works
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*Blood for a Stranger.*New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1942.
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*Little Friend, Little Friend.*New York: Dial Press, 1945.
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*Losses.*New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1948.
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*Poetry and the Age.*New York: Knopf, 1953.
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*Pictures from an Institution.*New York: Knopf, 1954.
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*The Woman at the Washington Zoo.*New York: Atheneum, 1960.
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*A Sad Heart at the Supermarket; Essays & Fables.*New York: Atheneum, 1962.
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*The Bat-Poet.*Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
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*The Gingerbread Rabbit.*New York: Macmillan, 1964.
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*The Lost World.*New York: Macmillan, 1965.
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*The Animal Family.*Decorations by Maurice Sendak. NY: Pantheon Books, 1965.
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*The Third Book of Criticism.*NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
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*Fly by Night.*New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969.
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*Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964.*NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980.

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*Randall Jarrell’s Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection.*Edited by Mary Jarrell; assisted by Stuart Wright. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
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*No Other Book: Selected Essays.*Edited by Brad Leithauser. New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1999.
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*The Bat-Poet.*Pictures by Maurice Sendak. New York: Macmillan, 1964.
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*The Complete Poems.*New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1969.
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*Jerome: The Biography of a Poem.*New York: Grossman Publishers, 1971.(With woodcuts and engravings by Albrecht Durer)
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*Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs.*New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1972. (A tale from the Brothers Grimm translated by Randall Jarrell. Pictures by Nancy Ekholm Burkert)
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*A Bat Is Born.*Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1978 [1964].(Illustrated by John Schoenherr)
Biographies and Memoirs
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*Adams, Charles M. Randall Jarrell, A Bibliography.*Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958.
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*Randall Jarrell’s Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection.*Mary Jarrell, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
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*Pritchard, William H. Randall Jarrell: A Literary Life.*NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
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*Simpson, Eileen B. Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir.*New York: Random House, 1982.


Criticism
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*Bawer, Bruce. The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell.*Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1986.
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*Bawer, Bruce. “The Enigma of Randall Jarrell.”*New Criterion 8.9 (May 1990): 30-40.
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*Beck, Charlotte H. The Dramatic Mode in the Poetry of Randall ]arrell.*Ph.D. dissertation, University of Tennessee, 1972.
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*Bergman, David. “Disturbing Randall Jarrell.”*American Literary History 16.2 (Sumr 2004): 350-62.
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*Burt, Stephen. “Randall Jarrell: The Mirror and the Nest.”*Metre 9 (2001): 74-84.
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*Burt, Stephen. Randall Jarrell and His Age.*New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.
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*Bryant. J. A.,Jr. Understanding Randall Jarrell.*Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1986.
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*Chappell, Fred. “The Indivisible Presence of Randall Jarrell.”*North Carolina Literary Review 1.1 (Sumr 1992): 8-13.
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Cyr, Marc D. “Randall Jarrell’s Answerable Style: Revision of Elegy in ‘The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner’.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language 46.1 (Sprg 2004): 92-106.
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*Damashek, Richard. The Lost World of Randall Jarrell.*Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1972.
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*Flynn, Richard. Randall Jarrell and the Lost World of Childhood.*Athens: U of Georgia Press, 1990.
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*Ferguson, Suzanne. The Poetry of Randall Jarrell.*Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1971.
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*Ferguson, Suzanne. ed. Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, and Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context.*Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2003.
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*Ferguson, Suzanne. Critical Essays on Randall Jarrell.*Boston: G. K. Hall, 1983.
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*Fowler, Russell. “Randall Jarrell’s ‘Eland’: A Key to Motive and Technique in His Poetry”.*Iowa Review 5 (Spring 1974): 113-126.
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*Griswold, Jerome. The Children’s Books of Randall Jarrell.*Athens; University of Georgia Press, 1988.
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*Heep, Hartmut. A Different Poem: Rainer Maria Rilke’s American Translators Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, and Robert Bly.*New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
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*Hoffman, Frederick J. The Achievement of Randall Jarrell.*Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman, 1970.
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*Jacobson, Kent A. Randall Jarrell: In Search of Authority.*Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1975.
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*Leithauser, Brad. “‘No Other Book’: Randall Jarrell’s Criticism.”*New Criterion 17.8 (Apr 1999): 19-27.
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*Longenbach, James. “Randall Jarrell’s Semifeminine Mind.”*Southwest Review 81.3 (Sumr 1996): 368-86.
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*Longenbach, James. “Randall Jarrell’s Legacy.”*Literary Imagination 5.2 (Sprg 2003): 358-68.
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*Lowell, Robert, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren., eds. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965.*New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
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*McDonald, Gail. “Sentimental Education: Randall Jarrell among the Women.”*Modernism/Modernity 5.1 (Jan 1998): 1-21.
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Nemerov, Howard.”Jarrell’s Complete Poems”, Kenyon Review 31, n. 4 (1969): 570-573.
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*Pritchard, William H. Randall Jarrell: a Literary Life.*NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990.
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*Quinn, Bernetta. Randall Jarrell.*Boston: Twayne, 1981.
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*Rosenthal, M. L. Randall Jarrell.*Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1972.
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*Shapiro. Karl. Randall Jarrell.*Washington: Library of Congress, 1967.
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*Thomas, Joseph T. “‘Levels and Opposites’ in Randall Jarrell’s The Bat Poet.”*Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 27.1 (Sprg 2002): 6-26.
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*Travisano, Thomas. “Randall Jarrell’s Poetics: A Rediscovered Milestone.”*Georgia Review 50.4 (Wint 1996): 691-96.
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Travisano, Thomas. Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic. Charlottesville, VA: UP of Virginia, 1999.
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*Vardamis, Alex A. “Randall Jarrell’s Poetry of Aerial Warfare.”*War, Literature, and the Arts 2.1 (Sprg 1990): 63-82.
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*Williamson, Alan. “Jarrell, the Mother, the Märchen.”*Twentieth Century Literature 40.3 (Fall 1994): 283-99.

