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Author | : Kay Redfield Jamison |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307744612 |
Download Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Jeffrey Meyers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781625341860 |
Download Robert Lowell in Love Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Robert Lowell was known not only as a great poet but also as a writer whose devotion to his art came at a tremendous personal cost. In this book, his third on Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers examines the poet's impassioned, troubled relationships with the key women in his life: his mother, Charlotte Winslow Lowell; his three wives--Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Caroline Blackwood; nine of his many lovers; his close women friends--Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich; and his most talented students, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Lowell's charismatic personality, compelling poetry, and literary fame attracted lovers and friends who were both frightened and excited by his aura of brilliance and danger. He loved the idea of falling in love, and in his recurring manic episodes he needed women at the center of his emotional and artistic life. Each affair became an intense dramatic episode. Though he idealized his loves and encouraged their talents, his frenetic affairs and tortured marriages were always conducted on his own terms. Robert Lowell in Love tells the story of the poet in the grip of love and gives voice to the women who loved him, inspired his poetry, and suffered along with him.
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.
Author | : Ian Hamilton |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 473 |
Release | : 2011-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0571282628 |
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Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third book, he found the intense, highly personal voice that made him the foremost American poet of his generation. He held strong, complex and very public political views. His private life was turbulent, marred by manic depression and troubled marriages. But in this superb biography (first published in 1982) the poet Ian Hamilton illuminates both the life and the work of Lowell with sympathetic understanding and consummate narrative skill. 'Our one consolation for Ian Hamilton's early death is that his work seems to have lived on with undiminished force... The critical prose, in particular, still sets a standard that nobody else comes near.' Clive James
Author | : Elizabeth Bishop |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 1156 |
Release | : 2020-02-18 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0374722870 |
Download Words in Air Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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
Author | : Robert Lowell |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 1216 |
Release | : 2007-04-03 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780374530327 |
Download Collected Poems Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Collected Poems at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.
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
Author | : Ford Madox Ford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Robert Lowell |
Publisher | : Farrar Straus & Giroux |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 1973-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780374170448 |
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The poet conveys his feelings and ideas about life and personalities in history