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The Letters of Robert Lowell

By Robert Lowell

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| Hardcover | 9780374185466

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Over the course of his life, Robert Lowell impressed those who knew him by his "refusal to be boring on paper" (Christopher Benfey). One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers Continue

Over the course of his life, Robert Lowell impressed those who knew him by his "refusal to be boring on paper" (Christopher Benfey). One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Edmund Wilson, Robert Kennedy, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost.

These letters document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; his marriages to three prose writers; and his engagement with politics and the antiwar movement of the 1960s.

The Letters of Robert Lowell shows us, in many cases for the first time, the private thoughts and passions of a figure unrivaled for his influence on American letters.

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  • The pain and the pleasure

    The Letters of Robert Lowell edited by Saskia Hamilton 852pp, Faber, £30 This Letters of Robert Lowell has rekindled an old argument. When Ian Hamilton published his Life of Lowell in 1982, five years after the poet's death, various friends and famil ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • The poet laid bare

    The Letters of Robert Powell edited by Saskia Hamilton Faber £30, pp862 By overwhelming consensus among readers, poets and critics, the two great American poets of the past 50 years were Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) and Robert Lowell (1917-77). Further ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 888 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0374185468
  • ISBN-13: 9780374185466
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: Jun 09, 2005
  • Dimensions: 1613 mm x 1097 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback
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