Randall Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection

In this expanded edition of Randall Jarrell's letters, his widow, Mary, has added letters from Jarrell to Peter Taylor, publication of which waswithheld during Taylor's lifetime. Taylor was, along with Robert Lowell, Jarrell'soldest and closest friend, and the inclusion of these incomparable letters addsanother dimension of friendship, artistry, and intellect to a collection alreadynoted for its behind-the-scenes glimpse of twentieth-century American literaryhistory in the making.