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The Third Book of Criticism

by Randall Jarrell

8vo. 333 (1) pp, note, 1. An Unread Book; 2. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens; 3. Graves and the White Goddess; 4. Changes of Attitude and Rhetoric in Auden's Poetry; 5. Freud to The Stages of Auden's Ideology; 6. Robert Frost's "Home Burial"; 7. Six Russian Short Novels; 8. The English in England; 9. Fifty Years of American Poetry. First Printing, 1969. Cream cloth with blind-stamped decoration on front board, and red and black lettering to spine. ``Almost exclusively, these essays are celebrations of writers Jarrell loved, the kind of essay Lowell characterizes so 'Eulogy was the glory of Jarrell's criticism. Eulogies that not only impressed readers with his own enthusiasims, but which also, time and agein, changed and improved opinions and values. He left many reputations permanently altered and exalted." from the jacket flap.

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