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Robert Lowell's life and work : damaged grandeur / Richard Tillinghast.
Van Pelt Library PS3523.O89 Z885 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tillinghast, Richard.
- Series:
- Poets on poetry
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
- Lowell, Robert.
- Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 124 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Mich. : The University of Michigan Press, 1995.
- Summary:
- This critical memoir by acclaimed poet Richard Tillinghast explores Robert Lowell's profound influence on the course of American poetry and politics--his role in the rise of Confessional Poetry; his involvement with figures of power and controversial opposition to the Vietnam War; his gift, both artistic and political, for the grand gesture. Showing how this gift tragically intertwined with the manic-depressive illness that marked the 'damaged grandeur' of Lowell's adult-life, Tillinghast radically reexamines Lowell's career and argues for the restoration of this complex, troubled poet to a preeminent position in American letters.
- ISBN:
- 0472095706
- 047206570X
- OCLC:
- 32272111
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