Poetry and the Age

"Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."— Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review

"Randall Jarrell’s book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The reader is exhilarated, led on to agree with Mr. Jarrell joyfully, even to cap his opinions—and at last to grow reckless. . . . Poetry and the Age is enormously readable."— Louis Simpson, The American Scholar

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