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The Poets' Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales

2 reviews

Story Line Press, 2003

Don't Go Into the Woods Without It
THE POETS GRIMM is an essential addition to the collection of anyone who grew up with fairy tales - that is, everyone in America who ever opened a storybook that began "Once upon a time. . ." or watched a Disney movie that opened with a princess tortured by her evil stepmother. Here are the stories from the Grimm brothers collections that terrified and delighted us as children, now revisited with ...

Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm

10 reviews

Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1972

The Original Snow White Restored
Quick someone, grab some rope. Disney is down and we need to protect ourselves while we can. ;) It is so wonderful to see this beautiful tale restored to its original depth and content. The translation is marvelous, from showing the queen being overpowered by jealousy, to the interest and friendliness of the woodland creatures. And the illustrations!! No strange little cartoon creatures here, ...

The Gingerbread Rabbit

1 review
Randall Jarrell

HarperTrophy, 2004

CLEVER and WONDERFUL story for a read aloud! CLASSIC!
I can't believe that no one has reviewed this book! What a cute story that is thoroughly engaging for little ones and fun to read out loud as well. The witty storytelling is suburb with just the right amount of suspense and great twists. The narrator even addresses the audience, which definitely adds to the appeal and lends an oral storytelling feel to the experience. It is also noteworthy ...

The Complete Poems

3 reviews
Randall Jarrell

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981

America's Great Poet of WWII
A great poem ought to be huge - grand in scope, but not necessarily excessive in length. Great poetry should tell massive stories with multiple layers concisely and artfully. One doesn't need obscure references, convoluted language, nor self-congratulatory internal winkings. Poetry is supposed to be honest. A great poem should pack a serious punch of power and style and insight. It's a ...

The Animal Family (Michael Di Capua Books)

21 reviews
Randall Jarrell

HarperTrophy, 1996

A timeless message .. of the times
Randall Jarrell (1914-65) is better known as a poet, although probably best known today for his poetry criticism. He also wrote a few children's book, most notably The Bat-Poet and The Animal Family, the later published the same year he died and winning the 1966 Newbery Honor. It is wonderfully illustrated by Maurice Sendak - of Where the Wild Things Are fame - in beautiful pen and ink drawings. ...

The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965

Hardcover First Edition

The Juniper Tree: And Other Tales from Grimm

5 reviews
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm K. Grimm

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2003

Lost in translation no longer
After hearing Sendak speak of the tragic fate that has befallen the fairy tale, I immediately went online in search of the Juniper Tree collection, a seventies-era translation of Grimm's fairy tales that professed to be true to the originals. According to Sendak, modern adaptations of fairy tales lack the vigor and violence of the originals, which themselves were adaptation of the spoken-word. ...

The BAT POET

8 reviews
Randall Jarrell

Collier, 1977

A WONDERFUL LITTLE BOOK.
Randall Jarrell has given us a beautiful little story here of a bat and Maurice Sendak has given us some wonderful illustrations in the form of black and white drawings. There is not much to not like about this work. The children love it, and the adult reading it to the children will find it just as interesting and hypnotic as the child, if not more so, but on a different level. The text is ...

The man who loved children

13 reviews
Christina Stead

Holt Rinehart Winston, 1965

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman*
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead is a rare literary masterpiece. It tells the tale of the inner life of the Pollit family (Sam and Henny Pollit with 6 children). The novel is representative of Christina Stead's past. And Louie, the protagonist, is of course, a version of young Stead who grew up in Sydney. The Man Who Loved Children is a novel about power structures within ...

Selected Poems (FSG Classics)
Randall Jarrell

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

Poet, novelist, literary critic, and teacher, Randall Jarrell was a writer with many facets, but most of all, he was a poet with a unique voice, one that was by turns imaginative, realistic, sensitive, and ironic. From the narratives of army life during the Second World War to the domestic scenes he wrote about so movingly in his final book, The Lost World , Jarrell?s poems are marked throughout by a voice that could be astonishingly intimate ...

The Animal Family - (Maurice Sendak Illustrations)
Randall Jarrell

Dell Publishing Co., 1974

Randall Jarrell The Complete Poems
Randall Jarrell

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989

Goethe's Faust, Part 1: An English Translation

30 reviews
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1976

A very readable Faust, including the German!
`Goethe's Faust', translated and with an introduction by Walter Kaufmann was quite a surprising find, as I had been, in an earlier life, quite a fan of Professor Kaufmann's works, but I simply had no idea he had translated the `Faust' of Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, the most famous of the many different literary renderings of this story. My surprise is based on the fact that Kaufmann was primarily ...

Pictures from an Institution (Phoenix Fiction Series)

5 reviews
Randall Jarrell

University Of Chicago Press, 1986

Really worth the read
Randall Jarrell's roman a clef about life in a small college, in that it centers upon a Mary McCarthyesque novelist who is herself embarking upon her own roman a clef (very much like THE GROVES OF ACADEME) about the "little people" who also trundle through the small college campus where she is allowed to stride magnificently like a contemptuous giantess. Thus the reader has the double pleasure of ...

Kipling, Auden & Co. (Essays And Reviews 1935 - 1964)
Randall Jarrell

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980

1980 Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First Edition. Hardcover, 381 pages. This fourth and final collection of Randall Jarrell's essays and reviews follows Poetry and the Age (1953, A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962), and The Third Book of Criticism (1969), and makes available virtually all of jarrell's previously uncollected criticism. Written over a period of thirty years, these pieces include an early study of Yeats, a eulogy of Ernie Pyle, a ...

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