Don McKay vs. Randall Jarrell
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Don McKay
1942 – present
Literature
Canada
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"Before the wonderful, terrible wrestling with words and music there is the state of mind I'm calling 'poetic attention' ... a sort of readiness ... a form of kn…"
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Randall Jarrell
1914 – 1965
Literature
United States
Randall Jarrell jə-REL was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. He was the 11th Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—a position that now bears the title Poet Laureate of the United States.
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"The poet needs to be deluded about his poems — for who can be sure that it is delusion? In his strongest hours the public hardly exists for the writer; he does …"
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Randall Jarrell was influenced by Don McKay
Shared era: 1942 – 1965
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