Randall Jarrell Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.

  Randall Jarrell

  Real, Criticism, Prison

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Contemporary Poetry Criticism" (p. 62), 1980.

• The usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Real, Men

  "The Third Book of Criticism". Book by Randall Jarrell,"An Unread Book", p. 20, 1969.

• First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary Situation , a book which tells you all about writers, critics, publishing, paperbacked books, the tendencies of the (literary) time, what sells and how much, what writers wear and drink and want, what their wives wear and drink and want, and so on.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Book, Wife

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Very Graceful Are the Uses of Culture" (p. 211), 1980.

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