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Among other honors, Jarrell was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for the years —48; a grant from the National Institute of Arts and Letters , in ; and the National Book Award for Poetry , in Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Hume-Fogg High School where he "practiced tennis, starred in some school plays, and began his career as a critic with satirical essays in a school magazine.

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While at Vanderbilt, he edited the student humor magazine The Masquerader , was captain of the tennis team, made Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. Although all of these Vanderbilt tutors were involved with the conservative Southern Agrarian movement , Jarrell did not become a supporter of the Agrarians himself. According to Stephanie Burt , "Jarrell—a devotee of Marx and Auden — embraced his teachers' literary stances while rejecting their politics.

Housman which he completed in When Ransom left Vanderbilt for Kenyon College in Ohio that same year, a number of his loyal students, including Jarrell, followed him to Kenyon. Jarrell taught English at Kenyon for two years, coached tennis , and served as the resident faculty member in an undergraduate dormitory that housed future writers Robie Macauley , Peter Taylor , [ 2 ] and poet Robert Lowell.

Lowell and Jarrell remained good friends and peers until Jarrell's death. According to Lowell biographer Paul Mariani , "Jarrell was the first person of [Lowell's] own generation [whom he] genuinely held in awe" due to Jarrell's brilliance and confidence even at the age of Jarrell went on to teach at the University of Texas at Austin from to , where he began to publish criticism and where he met his first wife, Mackie Langham.

The Jarrell obituary goes on to state that "after being discharged from the service he joined the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N. During his time in New York, he also served as the temporary book review editor for The Nation magazine". Jarrell was uncomfortable living in the city and "claimed to hate New York's crowds, high cost of living, status-conscious sociability, and lack of greenery.