Life Studies and for the Union Dead

Name: Life Studies and for the Union Dead
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ISBN: 9780374530969

ISBN-10: 0374530963

ISBN-13: 9780374530969

Edition: 2007

Authors: Robert Lowell

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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…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 10/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.62" wide x 8.35" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English