Randall Jarell

Poems, published in collections such as

Little Friend, Little Friend

(1945), of American poet and critic Randall Jarrell concern war, loneliness, and art.

He wrote eight books of poetry, five anthologies, a novel,

Pictures from an Institution

. Maurice Sendak illustrated his four books for children, and he translated

Faust: Part I

and

The Three Sisters

, which the studio of actors performed on Broadway; he also translated two other works. He received the National Book Award for poetry in 1960, served as poet laureate at the Library of Congress in 1957 and 1958, and taught for many years at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. He joined as a member of the American institute of arts and letters.