{"title":"Randall Jarrell","description":"Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was the author of six volumes of poetry and the recipient of the National Book Award for Poetry in 1961. Pictures from an Institution is his only novel.","products":[{"product_id":"pictures-from-an-institution-paperback","title":"Pictures from an Institution - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeneath the unassuming surface of a progressive women's college lurks a world of intellectual pride and pomposity awaiting devastation by the pens of two brilliant and appalling wits. Randall Jarrell's classic novel was originally published to overwhelming critical acclaim in 1954, forging a new standard for campus satire-and instantly yielding comparisons to Dorothy Parker's razor-sharp barbs. Like his fictional nemesis, Jarrell cuts through the earnest conversations at Benton College-mischievously, but with mischief nowhere more wicked than when crusading against the vitriolic heroine herself. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A most literate account of a group of most literate people by a writer of power. . . . A delight of true understanding.\"-Wallace Stevens \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"I'm greatly impressed by the real fun, the incisive satire, the closeness of observation, and in the end by a kind of sympathy and human warmth. It's a remarkable book.\"-Robert Penn Warren \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Move over Dorothy Parker. \u003ci\u003ePictures\u003c\/i\u003e . . . is less a novel than a series of poisonous portraits, set pieces, and endlessly quotable put-downs. Read it less for plot than sharp satire, Jarrell's forte.\"-Mary Welp \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"One of the wittiest books of modern times.\"-\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[T]he father of the modern campus novel, and the wittiest of them all. Extraordinary to think that 'political correctness' was so deliciously dissected 50 years ago.\"-Noel Malcolm, \u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A sustained exhibition of wit in the great tradition. . . . Immensely and very devastatingly shrewd.\"-Edmund Fuller, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[A] work of fiction, and a dizzying and brilliant work of social and literary criticism. Not only 'a unique and serious joke-book, ' as Lowell called it, but also a meditation made up of epigrams.\"-Michael Wood","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369615884511,"sku":"9780226393759","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/pLrBFKJEyu9780226393759.webp?v=1789143484"},{"product_id":"no-other-book-selected-essays-paperback","title":"No Other Book: Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eRandall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, \u003cem\u003eNo Other Book\u003c\/em\u003edraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, \"a critic of genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRandall Jarrell was only fifty-one at the time of his death, in 1965, yet he created a body of work that secured his position as one of the century's leading American men of letters. Although he saw himself chiefly as a poet, publishing a number of books of poetry, he also left behind a sparkling comic novel, four children's books, numerous translations, haunting letters, and four collections of essays. Edited by Brad Leithauser, \u003cem\u003eNo Other Book\u003c\/em\u003edraws from these four essay collections, reminding us that Jarell the poet was also, in the words of Robert Lowell, \"a critic of genius.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376595009759,"sku":"9780060956387","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KW13dEh7dU9780060956387.webp?v=1789218113"},{"product_id":"selected-poems-paperback-13","title":"Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during the Second World War to the domestic scenes he wrote about so movingly in his final book, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost World\u003c\/i\u003e, Jarrell's poems are marked throughout by a voice that could be astonishingly intimate or could open up to speak to our common humanity. This collection, prepared by William H. Pritchard, presents some of Jarrell's finest poems to a new generation of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378266046687,"sku":"9780374530884","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yPoTBL6cna9780374530884.webp?v=1789250902"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/randall-jarrell.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}