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Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice

✍ Scribed by Lowell, Robert; Lowell, Robert; Hayes, Paula


Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Year
2013
Tongue
English
Leaves
161
Series
Studies in Modern Poetry
Edition
First printing
Category
Library

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Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poet’s early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary’s Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowell’s early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowell’s early poetry is often overshadowed by the emergence of his confessional poetry (that develops in Life Studies; however, instead of Lowell’s early poetry being eclipsed by Life Studies, a remembrance of his early poetry is necessary as a way of understanding Lowell’s evolution as a poet. The early poetry provides readers and scholars of Lowell with a Puritan paradigm and the ethos of an American narrative that Lowell never fully abandons but only perpetually deconstructs


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