Volume 9, Number 9 · November 23, 1967
Randall Jarrell's Complaint
By Stephen Spender
Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965
edited by Robert Lowell, edited by Peter Taylor, edited by Robert Penn Warren
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 308 pp., $6.50
The first time I met Randall Jarrell was in 1950 at the Harvard Conference on the Defense of Poetry, where he gave 'the address, afterward to become famous, entitled 'The Obscurity of the Modern Poet.' He turned the tables on his hosts, who evidently wished him to discuss the difficulty of modern poetry, by talking instead about the obscurity to which poetry and the poet are today relegated.
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