Randall Jarrell Quote

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not—or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few hardened prisoners are more or less surreptitiously continuing their real vocations.


Contemporary Poetry Criticism, p. 143 - No Other Book: Selected Essays (1999)


Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not—or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few...

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not—or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few...

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not—or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few...

Our universities should produce good criticism; they do not—or, at best, they do so only as federal prisons produce counterfeit money: a few...