Robert Lowell - Softcover

Robert Lowell; Michael Hofmann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571207871 ISBN 13: 9780571207879

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2001

Synopsis

The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In the 'Poet to Poet' series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they have particularly admired.

Robert Lowell (1917-77) was born in Boston. Life Studies, published in 1959, was a watershed in American poetry, initiating an autobiographical project that became the dominating feature of his work.

Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1957. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently Approximately Nowhere (1999).

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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).

Synopsis

In this series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and by the personal and critical reactions they express, the selectors offer intriguing insight into their own work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571207871
• ISBN 13: 9780571207879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128