In the two decades that have passed since Robert Lowell s death, "Robert Lowell s Shifting Colors" is the first critical survey of the poet's aesthetic efforts to make personal vision and public exhortation cohere and thus combine poetic genres that have been historically discrete. Rather than consider Lowell primarily as either a religious, political, or autobiographical poet, William Doreski proposes that Lowell s primary poetic impulse was to shape differing voices into a single entity in which public and private concerns cohere. This makes him an essential poet for our era, in...
In the two decades that have passed since Robert Lowell s death, "Robert Lowell s Shifting Colors" is the first critical survey of the poet's aestheti...
Here is a book that shows how Lowell was both a charismatic figure and a trial to his friends. His relationships were tense, and although the friends he made in school remained consistently loyal through his bouts of madness, and although his wives repeatedly forgave seemingly unforgivable acts, not all, including Lowell himself, were aware that his behavior often bordered an outrage.
His forty-year friendship with Tate, perhaps more than any other, exemplifies the tension that was generated by a close friendship with Lowell. The varied strands of this relationship constitute the...
Here is a book that shows how Lowell was both a charismatic figure and a trial to his friends. His relationships were tense, and although the frien...
