Selected Poems - Softcover

Lowell, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571065104 ISBN 13: 9780571065103

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 1975

Synopsis

Arguably the leading poet of his generation, Robert Lowell was a poet whose work was always rhetorically gifted, original and open to change. Increasingly, it is clear that Lowell, troubled himself, was the poet who spoke for his troubled nation - fusing public and private. In an unofficial sense, Lowell was the American Laureate. This selection, chosen by the poet himself, is the ideal introduction to a vast body of important work.

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About the Author

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was born in Boston. He was recognised as an accomplished poet in his own lifetime, and along with Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath he created the fashion and generated the force of American poetry over the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Life Studies, published in 1959, marked a watershed. It initiated an autobiographical project which would dominate his oeuvre thereafter, and is now regarded as one of the most influential books of the century. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Lord Weary's Castle (1946) and another for The Dolphin (1973).

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571065104
• ISBN 13: 9780571065103
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64