Author

Randall Jarrell
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**Born: 6 May 1914 – 14 October 1965 graduated from Vanderbilt University Jarrell finished his Master's degree from Vanderbilt in 1938, then went on to teach at the University of Texas at Austin from 1939 to 1942, where he met his first wife, Mackie Langham. In 1942 he left the university to join the Air Force

Jarrell broke free of Auden's influence and developed his own style and poetic philosophy which he would later document in his critical essays. //The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner// is the most famous of Jarrell's war-poems and one that is frequently anthologized. It presents the soldier as innocent and child-like, placing blame for war on "the State."**

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