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Robert Lowell's Life and Work Damaged Grandeur

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ISBN-10: 0472095706

ISBN-13: 9780472095704

Edition: 1995

Authors: Richard W. Tillinghast

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Robert Lowell was regarded by many as the greatest American poet of his generation. "Somehow or other...in the middle of our worst century so far," his contemporary and friend Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "we have produced a magnificent poet." The scion of a distinguished New England family, Lowell crafted his poetry to comment on the nation's fate and even to influence the course of American politics. Along with Anne Sexton, John Berryman, and Sylvia Plath, he was a pioneer in the movement later known as Confessional Poetry, and his political gestures were often timely and controversial: his refusal of President Johnson's invitation to the White House came to symbolize the opposition of writers…    
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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 11/30/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 136
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English