![]() ![]() Its best-known poem is the last, " The Death of the Ball-Turret Gunner." Even these years were productive for his poetry in fact, his second volume of verses, Little Friend, Little Friend (1945), grew directly from his war experiences and feelings about the war. He aspired to be a pilot but ultimately served in the Air Force as a Celestial Navigation tower operator, principally in Arizona. World War II claimed Jarrell's time from 1942 to 1946. In 1940 he married Mackie Langham, who also taught in the English Department at the University of Texas, but they were divorced in 1951. ![]() After leaving Kenyon, Jarrell taught at the University of Texas until 1942, when he published his first collection of poems, Blood for a Stranger. degree in English from Vanderbilt his thesis was on the poet A. Jarrell taught at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, from 1937 to 1939, beginning a long career in the classroom and forming lasting friendships with John Crowe Ransom and the young poet Robert Lowell. With the growth of his own poetic skills, he won the Poetry Prize from The Southern Review in 1936. During the next two years he pursued graduate work at Vanderbilt, where he fell under the spell of the famed Fugitive and Agrarian poets. ![]() ![]() Returning to Nashville in 1928, he attended high school and was graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. Owing to his parents' divorce, much of his childhood through 1927 was spent in central and southern California. Randall Jarrell, poet, critic, and teacher, was born in Nashville, Tenn., the son of Owen and Anna Campbell Jarrell. ![]()
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