Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“ ‘Very Graceful Are the Uses of Culture’ ”, p. 206
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“Better to be the failure who nobly strived than the success who never really had to.”
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