Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell

Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong, well­-documented friendships with one another, often discussing each other’s work in private correspondence and published reviews. Joan Romano Shifflett’s Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry traces the artistic and personal connections between the three writers. Her study uncovers the significance of their parallel literary development and reevaluates dominant views of how Ameri