Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice
β 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
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poetβs early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Wearyβs Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowellβs early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowellβs early poetry is often overshadowed by the emergence of his confessional poetry (that develops in Life Studies; however, instead of Lowellβs early poetry being eclipsed by Life Studies, a remembrance of his early poetry is necessary as a way of understanding Lowellβs 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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