Robert Lowell Collected Poems - Softcover

Lowell, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374530327 ISBN 13: 9780374530327

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

Synopsis

Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Collected Poems at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.

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Review:

"Long awaited and much anticipated, [Collected Poems] is a show-stopping assertion of Lowell's ambition, industry and art." --Carmine Starnino, The Boston Globe

"[The new collection of Robert Lowell's poems] will doubtless stand as The Work . . . Long awaited, richly documented, and, yes, definitive." --Peter Davidson, The Atlantic Monthly

"This wonderfully definitive, long-awaited new edition gives us the full scope of a courageous, tormented, shocking, and brilliant American poet." --The Washington Post

Book Description:

The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell brings together, for the first time, the work of America's pre-eminent post-war poet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0374530327
• ISBN 13: 9780374530327
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1216
• Editor: Bidart Frank, Gewanter David