Eliot. Or one could call him, after granting Eliot the English citizenship he so actively embraced, the best poet-critic we have ever had. Whichever side of the Atlantic one chooses to place Eliot, Jarrell was his superior in at least one significant respect. He captured a world that any contemporary poet will recognize as "the poetry scene"; his Poetry and the Age might even now be retitled Poetry and Our Age. Fiction, translations, and children's books In addition to poetry and criticism, Jarrell also published a satiric novel, Pictures from an Institution, in 1954, drawing upon his teaching experiences at Sarah Lawrence College, which served as the model for the fictional Benton College. He also wrote several children's books, among which The Bat-Poet (1964) and The Animal Family (1965) are considered prominent (and feature illustrations by Maurice Sendak). In 1957 Jarrell began his translation of Goethe‘s Faust Part One for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It was published in 1976. Jarrell translated poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and others, a play by Anton Chekhov, and several Grimm fairy tales. Bibliography Blood for A Stranger. NY: Harcourt, 1942. Little Friend, Little Friend. NY: Dial, 1945. Losses. NY: Harcourt, 1948. The Seven League Crutches. NY: Harcourt, 1951. Poetry and the Age. NY: Knopf, 1953. Pictures from an Institution: A Comedy. New York: Knopf, 1954 Selected Poems. New York: Knopf, 1955. Randall Jarrell's Book of Stories: An Anthology. Selected and with an introduction by Randall Jarrell. New York: New York Review Books, 1958. The Woman at the Washington Zoo: Poems and Translations. New York: Atheneum, 1960. A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables. NY: Atheneum, 1962. Selected Poems including The Woman at the Washington Zoo. NY: Macmillan, 1964. The Bat-Poet. Pictures by Maurice Sendak. NY: Macmillan, 1964. The Gingerbread Rabbit. Illustrated by Garth Williams. NY: Random House, 1965 The Lost World. NY: Macmillan, 1965. The Animal Family. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. NY: Pantheon Books, 1965. Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965. Edited by Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968. The Third Book of Criticism. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. The Complete Poems. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1969. Fly by Night. Illustrated by Maurice Sendak. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. "Faust: Part One" by Goethe, (translator). Farrah, Straus & Giroux 1976 Kipling, Auden & Co.: Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979.