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Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965.
Berg Collection of English and American Literature
This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, correspondence, notebooks from 1939 to 1951, legal documents and certificates, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts and typescripts include articles, notes, children's stories, lectures, poems, essays, interviews, lists, reviews, criticism, translations and drafts of translations. The correspondence includes letters dating from [1926] to 1967,from the author to Kenneth Burke, his mother Anna Jarrell,his first wife Mackie Jarrell, Alfred Kazin, Sister Bernetta Quinn, and Louis Untermeyer. Also present are letters relating to the author, dating from 1947 to 1969, between various correspondents including John Berryman, Philip Booth, Robert Fitzgerald, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Mary von Schrader Jarrell, Robert Penn Warren, and others. There are letters to Jarrell fromJohn Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Corso, Michael DiCapua, Robert Lowell, Heather Ross Miller, Sister BernettaQuinn, Adrienne Rich, Maurice Sendak, Eleanor Ross Taylor,Peter Hillsman Taylor, Louis Untermeyer, and others, some addressed also to Mary von Schrader Jarrell, dating from 1936 to 1969.
Randall Jarrell was an American literary critic, poet, children's literature writer, and translator.
Among first to enter action. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division.
One of 700,000 pictures in the NYPL Digital Gallery
