Knives, Wounds, Bows
John Bayley, 2 April 1987
Randall Jarrell’s Letters
edited by Mary Jarrell.
Faber, 540 pp., £25, January 1986,0 571 13829 2 Show More
edited by Mary Jarrell.
Faber, 540 pp., £25, January 1986,
The Complete Prose of Marianne Moore
edited by Patricia Willis.
Faber, 723 pp., £30, January 1987,0 571 14788 7 Show More
edited by Patricia Willis.
Faber, 723 pp., £30, January 1987,
“... were Jacques Barzun, R.P. Blackmur, Alfred Kazin, Lionel Trilling, Delmore Schwartz, Allen Tate, Kenneth Burke, Robert Fitzgerald, Leslie Fiedler and John Crowe Ransom – this last its founder as a school of literary criticism ‘to teach those who teach it’. Marianne Moore, in Brooklyn, had a quieter time, but was just as much in touch with them all ... ”