Robert Lowell: Life and Art

✍ Scribed by Steven Gould Axelrod

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1742
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven Axelrod proposes that the key to our understanding of Lowell's poetic achievement lies precisely in this interpenetration of his life and his art.

Originally published in 1978.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Method of Citation
I. Introduction: Lowell's Poetry of Experience
II. Myths of Experience
Starting Out: Learning from Tate
Toward Lord Weary's Castle
Lord Weary's Castle
Drift
III. Photographs of Experience
Starting Over: Learning from Williams
Life Studies
IV. Impressions of Experience
For the Union Dead as a Sequence
"For the Union Dead"
Near the Ocean
The Imperfect Poem
V. The Book of Life
The Dolphin
"We Are Poor Passing Facts"
Chronology
Appendix A: Poems Lowell Copied into His Notebooks,1939-1943
Appendix B: Three Versions of Section Three of "My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow" and a Draft of "Skunk Hour"
Notes
Index