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Jarrell was a native of Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from Vanderbilt University there. While at Vanderbilt, he was closely acquainted with the group of poets which made up the Fugitives group, but his work is not considered to have been greatly influenced by them. Jarrell followed the great critic John Crowe Ransom from Vanderbilt to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where Jarrell wrote a masters thesis on the poetry of Alfred Edward HousmanAlfred Edward Housman ( March 26, 1859 April 30, 1936) was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad''. Life Housman was born in Fockbury, Worcestershire, the eldest of seven children of a country solici and roomed with student poet Robert LowellRobert Lowell ( March 1, 1917 September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. was an American poet known for inspiring and teaching several literary superstars of the 1950s and 1960s, including Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. He was part of the B. Jarrell A well-respected academic and literary critic in addition to his creative work. He taught at Kenyon College, the University of Texas, and the University of North Carolina.
His death was due to being struck by a car, while walking along a North Carolina road at dusk. He had recently been treated for mental illness and a suicideSuicide (from Latin sui caedere to kill oneself) is the act of ending one's own life. It is considered a sin in many religions, and a crime in some jurisdictions. On the other hand, some cultures have viewed it as an honorable way to exit certain shameful attempt, but the coroner's verdict was accidental death. Whether it was accident or suicide will always be doubtful.
In 2004, the Metropolitan Nashville Historical Commission approved placement of a historical marker in his honor, to be placed at Hume-Fogg High School, which he attended.
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