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Writer and Vanderbilt alumnus Randall Jarrell to be honored at Nashville high school
9/28/2004
10:54 am
 Randall Jarrell The Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission has approved the marker, which will be placed at the school early next year. Jarrell, who died in 1965, published distinguished volumes of poetry, criticism and a novel. He won the National Book Award for poetry in 1960 for "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" and was poet laureate at the Library of Congress from 1956 to 1958. "Long before I thought of becoming an English professor, I knew and admired Randall Jarrell's poetry," said Jay Clayton, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English and chair of the Department of English at Vanderbilt. "I never dreamed I would one day have the privilege of working in his department at Vanderbilt." Jarrell was born in Nashville and lived in Los Angeles as a child before returning in time to attend Hume-Fogg. At Vanderbilt, he studied with Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate. Some of his poems, inspired by his service in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, chronicled the struggles and concerns of young soldiers. In addition to his own work, Jarrell was a respected poetry critic. He taught for many years at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Jarrell died at 50 after being struck by an automobile. Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu |
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