Randall Jarrell Quote

The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm in a somewhat literary realm. About Darwin, Marx, Freud and Co., about all characteristically scientific or modern thinkers most of them concluded regretfully: If they had not existed, it would not have been necessary to ignore them. (Or deplore them.)


New Year Letter, p. 56 - Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)


The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm...

The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm...

The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm...

The poets of the last generation were extremely erudite, but their erudition was of the rather specialized type that passed as currency of the realm...