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Randall Jarrell

1914 - 1965

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Randall Jarrell jə-REL (May 6, 1914 – October 14, 1965) was an American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Randall Jarrell has received more than 252,095 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Randall Jarrell is the 6,646th most popular writer (down from 5,988th in 2019), the 13,148th most popular biography from United States (down from 12,214th in 2019) and the 961st most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Pictures from an institution
Fiction, Women's colleges, American fiction (fictional works by one author)
1954
Poems
American poetry, World War, 1939-1945, Poetry
1955
The Gingerbread Rabbit
Fiction, Gingerbread, Rabbits
After a mother makes a gingerbread rabbit to surprise her daughter, the rabbit magically comes to life.
1964
The animal family
Juvenile fiction, Animals, Fiction
A mermaid, a hunter, a bear and a lynx all live together. One day the bear and lynx find a boy in a rowboat on the beach and bring him home too.
1965
Poetry and the age
20th century, History and criticism, Poetry, Modern
"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 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?" 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 twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
1953
The bat-poet
Fiction, Bats, Animals
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.
1964

Page views of Randall Jarrells by language

Over the past year Randall Jarrell has had the most page views in the with 28,928 views, followed by Spanish (1,570), and Russian (1,184). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hebrew (44.20%), Finnish (41.33%), and Swedish (40.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Randall Jarrell ranks 6,646 out of 7,302. Before him are Julie Plec, Élie Blanchard, Rose Tremain, Olga Slavnikova, Bosley Crowther, and Tõnu Õnnepalu. After him are James Weldon Johnson, D. B. Weiss, Patrick Besson, Shirley Ann Grau, Tom Egeland, and Catherine Cookson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Randall Jarrell ranks 410. Before him are Joan Marsh, B. R. Chopra, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Tex Beneke, Frank Fenner, and Josh White. After him are Joe Rantz, Jane Randolph, David Brian, Ellen Drew, Gerald Mohr, and Laurie Lee. Among people deceased in 1965, Randall Jarrell ranks 237. Before him are Irving Bacon, Óscar Cristi, Daniel Frank, Henry Weed Fowler, Zachary Scott, and Gladys Davis. After him are Clemence Dane, Louis Baillon, Haldor Halderson, Creighton Hale, H. V. Evatt, and Eddie Gribbon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Randall Jarrell ranks 13,148 out of 20,380. Before him are Sharon Jones (1956), Janet Blair (1921), Hal Hartley (1959), Katrina Law (1985), Sean Faris (1982), and Christopher Lawford (1955). After him are Bethany Joy Lenz (1981), Thomas Ian Nicholas (1980), Jason Blum (1969), Carver Mead (1934), Gerry Ashworth (1942), and Sam Esmail (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Randall Jarrell ranks 961. Before him are Bill Lawrence (1968), Russell Simmons (1957), Oliver La Farge (1901), Audrey Niffenegger (1963), Julie Plec (1972), and Bosley Crowther (1905). After him are James Weldon Johnson (1871), D. B. Weiss (1971), Shirley Ann Grau (1929), Deborah Feldman (1986), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882), and George Clayton Johnson (1929).

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