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from: University of Michigan Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.52
EAN: 9780472095704
ISBN: 0472095706
Label: University of Michigan Press
Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 136
Publication Date: January 01, 1996
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Sales Rank: 5403254
Studio: University of Michigan Press
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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 and intellectuals to the Vietnam War. Since Lowell's death in 1977, his reputation has suffered a decline; yet arguably no poet living today writes with the same authority, the same sense of grandeur.
Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur is a critical memoir by acclaimed poet Richard Tillinghast, a friend and student of Lowell's in the 1960s. Tillinghast shows how Lowell's gift for the grand gesture was tragically intertwined with the manic-depressive illness that afflicted him throughout his adult life- hence the 'damaged grandeur' of the title. This book offers a radical re- examination of Lowell's poetic career and argues for the restoration of this complex and troubled poet to a pre-eminent position in American letters.
Richard Tillinghast's books of poetry include Our Flag was Still There, Sewanee in Ruins, The Knife and Other Poems, and Sleep Watch. He writes regularly for The New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, and The New Republic. He is Professor of English, University of Michigan.
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