TWA Poet: Randall Jarrell

1914 - 1965

Today is the birthday of poet and critic Randall Jarrell (books by this author), born in Nashville, Tennessee (1914). In his critical essays, collected and published as Poetry and the Age (1953), he revitalized the reputations of Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, and William Carlos Williams.

He's also responsible for bringing attention to the poetry of Robert…