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Research Paper Comparing American Authors

Carl Sandburg, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Randall Jarrell were all significant authors of their times, writing on a variety of themes and employing many different styles in their writing. Randall Jarrell was quite the poet, but was best known for his literary criticism (Contemporary Authors Online (CAO)). When criticizing literary works, Jarrell was noted for possessing great knowledge on the topic, as well as employing a witty and at times acerbic tone (CAO). Jarrell’s cruel tendencies were deemed as “unbelievably cruel” by Elizabeth Bishop, but his vehemence was a barometer of his love for literature, and his commitment to promoting good writers was the source of his vitriolic reviews (CAO). J.C. Levenson stated this well when he said that Jarrell “could not help telling them to change a word, change a line, change their lives, but the demand he made came out of concern and not out of overbearing authority (CAO). As a poet, Jarrell was thematically diversified. During...

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