Robert Lowell in a New Century

Robert Lowell in a New Century
Author: Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher: Camden House
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2019
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 164014028X

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New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles.

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Author: Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0307744612

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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell’s story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell’s illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was—both despite and because of mental illness—a passionate, original observer of the human condition.

Life Studies and For the Union Dead

Life Studies and For the Union Dead
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2007-10-16
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374530963

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Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century—and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.

Day by Day

Day by Day
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 137
Release: 1977
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780374135256

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Collected verses focus on the American poet's memories of family and school, marriage, recent life in England, and present home in Kent

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2020-01-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0571357423

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The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circle - writers, intellectuals, friends, and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Rich - the book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of their twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation. Lowell's controversial sonnet-sequence The Dolphin (for which he used Hardwick's letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwick's influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Essays on Women in Literature and Sleepless Nights: A Novel. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriages, children, and friends, and of the feelings that their personal crises gave rise to. The Dolphin Letters, masterfully edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of art - what occasions a work of art, what moral and artistic license artists have to make use of their lives as material, what formal innovations such debates give rise to. The crisis of Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone surrounding him, and Bishop's warning to Lowell - 'art just isn't worth that much' - haunts.

On Heaven

On Heaven
Author: Ford Madox Ford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1918
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

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Words in Air

Words in Air
Author: Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 1156
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0374722870

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Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.

Memoirs

Memoirs
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0374712182

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A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs

Robert Lowell In Context

Robert Lowell In Context
Author: Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2024-04-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009465708

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Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell
Author: Steven Axelrod
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1986
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521378031

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Robert Lowell is one of the most widely recognised and influential poets of the second half of this century. Yet his career is problematical and raises many questions about direction and quality, particularly in light of his repeated reorientation of thematic concern and poetic technique. Many previous studies of the poet have accounted for these radical differences in Lowell's work by examining the poet's private life, but this collection of essays attempts to reassess Lowell's poetry and to restimulate critical thinking about it by focusing on his texts to raise new questions and discussions about the work. The twelve essays in this volume, by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field, offer a chronological review of Robert Lowell's career as a poet. The book includes pieces on major works such as Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, 'Skunk Hour', Notebook, the sonnets of 1969-73 as well as four essays devoted to Lowell's last complete and often neglected work, Day by Day. Employing a variety of methodologies, the essays arrive at innovative and, often, controversial interpretations of Lowell's poems.