Randall Jarrell and His Age

This book, winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks award, examines all of Jarrell's work, incorporating new research such as previously undiscovered essays and poems.

Burt situates the poet-critic among his peers, including Bishop and Arendt, in literature and cultural criticism.

He considers the ways in which Jarrell's efforts and achievements encompassed the concerns of his time, from teen culture to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the book posits what these concerns might say to our own.