Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell - Softcover

Mariani, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393313743 ISBN 13: 9780393313741

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996

Synopsis

"Thorough and just. . . . Quietly, surely in touch with its distinguished subject."? Richard Wilbur Robert Lowell's poetry radically altered the American literary landscape, combining as it did family drama and an apocalyptic view of the history of our times. He won three Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards for poetry. Married three times, always to writers, he had his dark side, suffering from crippling bouts of manic depression and alcoholism. Using hundreds of Lowell's unpublished manuscripts and letters, and dozens of interviews, Paul Mariani has given us a balanced, passionate, and readable life, capturing the man, his age, and his place in literary history.

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Review:

[Mariani's] vigorous narrative style sparkles with rich details. . . . These pages bring out the sheer interestingness of Lowell's mind as it is encountered in letters, prose reflections, and in a lifetimes of poems.--William Pritchard

Synopsis:

Drawing on Lowell's unpublished letters and manuscripts, as well as interviews with friends and relatives, this text describes the life of Robert Lowell. Much of his early work covered his New England background, Catholicism and his admiration for Elizabethan and metaphysical poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393313743
• ISBN 13: 9780393313741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 552