Randell Jarrell was a poetry critic who hated Oscar Williams, and some other poets. He wrote sarcastic lines. Cynthia Haven says in an article on Jarrell, "His famous remark about Oscar Williams, that his verse "gave the impression of having been written on a typewriter by a typewriter," got him dropped from Williams' influential anthology."

Reporters love to personalize because readers love the personal. If it sounds good it doesn't have to be true. Randell Jarrell's poetry simply wasn't that good, so why should Oscar Williams continue to put him in anthologies, especially when Jarrell does not seem that grateful for being helped in his literary career by Oscar.

Oscar suffered a similar fate to Jarrell. You get published as a poet because people are afraid of you as either a critic or an anthologist. Yet, when you are no longer perceived as a danger, they then condemn you as not a good poet because you are a good critic or anthologist. Also, Critics condemn. Anthologists support.

You are either a negative person in life or you are a positive person in life. You can be different and both in different areas of life. What you give your best to is often what is the best. What you give your worst to... Would you bite the hand that fed you poetry? Randell Jarrell bite Oscar Williams offered hand.

Now, for an honest critique of Randell Jarrell's most recognized poem by the son of Oscar Williams!