The Bat-Poet

The Bat-Poet PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006205905X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way. Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make beads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable. Best Illustrated Children's Books 1964 (NYT) Year's Best Juveniles 1964 (NYT)

The Bat-Poet

The Bat-Poet PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006205905X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Book Description
There was once a little brown bat who couldn't sleep days-he kept waking up and looking at the world. Before long he began to see things differently from the other bats, who from dawn to sunset never opened their eyes. The Bat-Poet is the story of how he tried to make the other bats see the world his way. Here in The Bat-Poet are the bat's own poems and the bat's own world: the owl who almost eats him; the mockingbird whose irritable genius almost overpowers him; the chipmunk who loves his poems, and the bats who can't make beads or tails of them; the cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and sparrows who fly in and out of Randall Jarrell's funny, lovable, truthful fable. Best Illustrated Children's Books 1964 (NYT) Year's Best Juveniles 1964 (NYT)

A Bat is Born, from The Bat-poet

A Bat is Born, from The Bat-poet PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher: Doubleday Books
ISBN: 9780385122245
Category : Bats
Languages : en
Pages : 31

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Describes in verse the nocturnal life of a mother bat and her offspring.

Little Red Bat

Little Red Bat PDF Author: Carole Gerber
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
ISBN: 1607180693
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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A little red bat wonders if she should stay where she is for the winter and after receiving advice from different animals makes a decision.

Casey at the Bat

Casey at the Bat PDF Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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A narrative poem about a celebrated baseball player who strikes out at the crucial moment of a game.

Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories

Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170052
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Storytelling as a fundamental human impulse, one that announces itself at the moment, hidden in infancy, that dreams begin—this is what the poet and critic Randall Jarrell set out to illuminate in this extraordinary book. Here Jarrell presents ballads, parables, anecdotes, and legends along with some of the finest work of Chekhov, Babel, Elizabeth Bowen, Isak Dinesen, Kafka, Peter Taylor, and Katherine Anne Porter. This wonderful anthology, with its celebrated introductory essay, enlarges and deepens our perception of the storyteller's art and its central place in the world of our feelings. Contents RANDALL JARRELL: Introduction FRANZ KAFKA: A Country Doctor ANTON CHEKHOV: Gusev RAINER MARIA RILKE: The Wrecked Houses; The Big Thing ROBERT FROST: The Witch of Coös GIOVANNI VERGA: La Lupa NIKOLAI GOGOL: The Nose ELIZABETH BOWEN: Her Table Spread LUDWIG TIECK: Fair Eckbert BERTOLT BRECHT: Concerning the Infanticide, Marie Farrar LEO TOLSTOY: The Three Hermits PETER TAYLOR: What You Hear from 'Em? HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN: The Fir Tree KATHERINE ANNE PORTER: He ANONYMOUS: The Red King and the Witch ANTON CHEKHOV: Rothschild's Fiddle THE BROTHERS GRIMM: Cat and Mouse in Partnership E. M. FORSTER: The Story of the Siren THE BOOK OF JONAH FRANZ KAFKA: The Bucket-Rider SAINT-SIMON: The Death of Monseigneur ISAAC BABEL: Awakening CHUANG T'ZU: Five Anecdotes HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL: A Tale of the Cavalry WILLIAM BLAKE: The Mental Traveller D. H. LAWRENCE: Samson and Delilah LEO TOLSTOY: The Porcelain Doll IVAN TURGENEV: Byezhin Prairie WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage FRANK O'CONNOR: Peasants ISAK DINESEN: Sorrow-Acre

Bat Ode

Bat Ode PDF Author: Jeredith Merrin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226520575
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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The poems in Bat Ode speak to the way we live today and how it feels to occupy such a mongrel, fast-changing, postmodern world. Yet rather than breaking with the linguistic or poetic past, these poems seem to renew it with a fresh vision. Jeredith Merrin's sense of humor, her formal poise, her heart and wit, situate her as one of our most convincing social poets.

Casey at the Bat

Casey at the Bat PDF Author: Ernest L. Thayer
Publisher: Handprint Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Caldecott Honor Book : 2001.

The Animal Family

The Animal Family PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780063435858
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Poetry and the Age

Poetry and the Age PDF Author: Randall Jarrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813021089
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 317

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About Poetry and the Age: "Perhaps the most comprehensive and certainly the most detailed of all studies of modern poetry."-- Delmore Schwartz, New York Times Book Review "Randall Jarrell's book about poetry and the criticism of poetry pulls the bung-cork out of the barrel. The reader is exhilarated, led on to agree with Mr. Jarrell joyfully, even to cap his opinions--and at last to grow reckless. . . . Poetry and the Age is enormously readable."-- Louis Simpson, The American Scholar "The most powerful reviewer of poetry active in this country for the last decade. . . . Everybody interested in modern poetry ought to be grateful to him." -- John Berryman, New Republic Randall Jarrell was the critic whose taste defined American poetry after World War II. Poetry and the Age, his first collection of criticism, was published in 1953. It has been in and out of print over the past 40 years and has become a classic of American letters. In this new edition, two long-lost lectures by Jarrell have been added. Recently discovered by critics, they speak to issues at the heart of Jarrell's criticism: the structure of poetry and the question "Is American poetry American?" One of the outstanding poets of the postwar generation, Jarrell was also celebrated for his extraordinary praise of some underappreciated older and younger poets and for his witty dismissals of current favorites he thought less qualified. Poetry and the Age includes groundbreaking considerations of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost as well as profound appraisals of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, and William Carlos Williams. His early reviews that established the reputations of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop are here, beside other enthusiastic discoveries that have withstood the test of time. Poetry and the Age also contains Jarrell's influential essays on the obscurity of poetry and on the age of criticism, essays that offer some of the most relevant and readable literary judgments of the 20th century. Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) wrote eight books of poetry, five anthologies, four children's books illustrated by Maurice Sendak, four translations, including Faust: Part I and The Three Sisters (performed on Broadway by the Actor's Studio), and a novel, Pictures from an Institution. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1960, served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1957 and 1958, and taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He was a member of the American Institute of Arts and Letters.

Tulip at the Bat

Tulip at the Bat PDF Author: J. Patrick Lewis
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
ISBN: 9780316612807
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Rhyming story about the animal world series between the Boston Beasts and the New York Pets.