No Other Book: Selected Essays

When Randall Jarrell died in 1965, he left behind a critically acclaimed body of poetry, fiction, and criticism that has earned him a permanent place in American literature. Called -the most exhilarating critic America has produced' (Kirkus Reviews) and a -critic of genius' (Robert Lowell), Jarrell was highly esteemed both during his lifetime and beyond. His influence on contemporary criticism continues to be pervasive and thorough.aNo Other Book is a distillation of Jarrell's critical essays from his four books of criticism, Poetry and the Age, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket, The Third Book of Criticism, and Kipling, Auden & Co. The volume features a collection of essays, selected and edited by a leading poet-critic of the new generation, Brad Leithauser.aNo Other Book is divided into three parts: - Jarrell's essays on poetry- Jarrell's essays on fiction and other matters- a section called -A Jarrell Gallery', presents excerpts from other essays that help define Jarrell's talent and inimitable way of thinking.