Birth date: 
05/06/1914
Death date: 
10/14/1965
Birth town: 
Country: 
Nashville

Poet, critic and teacher, Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Anna (Campbell) and Owen Jarrell on May 6, 1914. Mr. Jarrell attended the Vanderbilt University and later taught at the University of Texas.

Mr. Jarrell also taught a year at Princeton and also at the University of Illinois; he did a two-year appointment as Poetry Consultant at the Library of Congress.

Randall Jarrell published many novels througout his lifetime and one of his most well known works was in 1960, "The Woman at the Washington Zoo".

Upon Mr. Jarrells passing, Peter Taylor (A well known fiction writer and friend of Mr. Jarrell) said, "To Randall's friends there was always the feeling that he was their teacher. To Randall's students there was always the feeling that he was their friend. And with good reason for both." Lowell said of Jarrell, "Now that he is gone, I see clearly that the spark of heaven really struck and irradiated the lines and being of my dear old friend—his noble, difficult and beautiful soul."

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90 North 30 July 2013
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A Camp In The Prussian Forest 30 July 2013
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A Country Life 30 July 2013
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A Description of Some Confederate Soldiers 5 September 2014
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A Man Meets A Woman In The Street 30 July 2013
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A Sick Child 30 July 2013
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Children Selecting Books In A Library 31 July 2013
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Cinderella 31 July 2013
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Eighth Air Force 31 July 2013
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Gunner 31 July 2013
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