In one essay, this writer remarks that "I never hear anybody say of a critic, 'He's all right, but he's no Saint-Beuve,'" while in another he analyzes "the most awful of Frost's smaller poems... Design." Those essays, "The Age of Criticism," and "To the Laodiceans," can be found in his critical volume Poetry and the Age, while his collection of "Essays and Fables," is entitled A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. This author put Mary McCarthy into his satirical academic novel Pictures From an Institution, and his less famous collections of poetry include The Woman at the Washington Zoo and The Lost World. However, he is best known for a short poem which is found in his co
In one essay, this writer remarks that "I never hear anybody say of a critic, 'He's all right, but he's no Saint-Beuve,'" while in another he analyzes "the most awful of Frost's smaller poems... Design." Those essays, "The Age of Criticism," and "To the Laodiceans," can be found in his critical volume Poetry and the Age, while his collection of "Essays and Fables," is entitled A Sad Heart at the Supermarket. This author put Mary McCarthy into his satirical academic novel Pictures From an Institution, and his less famous collections of poetry include The Woman at the Washington Zoo and The Lost World. However, he is best known for a short poem which is found in his collection Little Friend, Little Friend, and which begins, "From my mother's sleep I fell into the State." For ten points, identify this American poet best known for "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner."
In one essay, this writer remarks that "I never hear anybody say of a critic, 'He's all right, but he's no Saint-Beuve,'" while in another he analyzes "the most awful of Frost's smaller poems... Design."
Randall Jarrell