Randall Jarrell

Bibliography

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• (Contributor) Five Young American Poets, New Directions, 1940.
• Blood for a Stranger (poems), Harcourt, 1942.
• Little Friend, Little Friend (poems), Dial, 1945.
• Losses (poems), Harcourt, 1948.
• (Translator) Ferdinand Gregorovius, The Ghetto and the Jews of Rome, Schocken, 1948.
• The Seven League Crutches (poems), Harcourt, 1951.
• Poetry and the Age (criticism), Knopf, 1953, reprinted, Noonday, 1972.
• Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy (novel), Knopf, 1954.
• Selected Poems, Knopf, 1955.
• (Editor) The Anchor Book of Stories, Doubleday-Anchor, 1958.
• Uncollected Poems, [Cincinnati], 1958.
• The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations (also see below), Atheneum, 1960.
• (Editor) The Best Short Stories of Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday, 1961.
• A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays and Fables, Atheneum, 1962.
• (Translator) Ludwig Bechstein, The Rabbit Catcher and Other Fairy Tales of Ludwig Bechstein, Macmillan, 1962.
• (Translator and author of introduction) Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, The Golden Bird and Other Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, Macmillan, 1962.
• (Editor) Rudyard Kipling, The English in England, Doubleday, 1963.
• (Editor) R. Kipling, In the Vernacular: The English in India, Doubleday, 1963.
• (Editor) Six Russian Short Novels, Doubleday, 1963.
• The Gingerbread Rabbit (juvenile), illustrations by Garth Williams, Macmillan, 1963.
• Selected Poems Including the Woman at the Washington Zoo, Macmillan, 1964.
• The Bat-Poet (juvenile), illustrations by Maurice Sendak, Macmillan, 1964.
• (Translator) Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters, produced at Morosco Theatre, 1964.
• The Lost World: New Poems, Macmillan, 1965, published with an appreciation by Robert Lowell, Collier Books, 1966.
• The Animal Family, illustrations by Sendak, Pantheon, 1965.
• Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965, edited by Lowell, Pete Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren, Farrar, Straus, 1968.
• Complete Poems, Farrar, Straus, 1968, reprinted, 1980.
• The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner, illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker, David Lewis, 1969.
• The Third Book of Criticism, Farrar, Straus, 1969.
• The Achievement of Jarrell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems,edited by Frederick J. Hoffman, Scott, Foresman, 1970.
• Jerome: The Biography of a Poem, illustrations by Albrecht Duerer, Grossman, 1971.
• (Translator) Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm, Farrar, Straus, 1972.
• (Translator) Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, The Juniper Tree and Other Tales from Grimm, edited by Lore Segal and Sendak, Farrar, Straus, 1973.
• Fly by Night (juvenile), illustrations by Sendak, Farrar, Straus, 1976.
• (Translator) Goethe's Faust, Part I, Farrar, Straus, 1976.
• A Bat Is Born, illustrations by John Schoenherr, Doubleday, 1978.
• Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964, Farrar, Straus, 1979.
• (Translator) Jakob Grimm, The Fisherman and His Wife, Farrar, Straus, 1980.
• Jarrell's Letters: An Autobiographical and Literary Selection, edited by wife, Mary Jarrell, and Stuart Wright, Houghton, 1985.
• Selected Poems, edited by William H. Pritchard, Michael Di Capua Books/Farrar, Straus, 1990.
• No Other Book: Selected Essays, edited by Brad Leithauser, HarperCollins, 1995.

Former acting literary editor of Nation; poetry critic, Partisan Review, 1949-51, and Yale Review, 1955-57; member of editorial board, American Scholar, 1957-65. Contributor to New Republic, New York Times Book Review, and other publications.