With Robert Lowell And His Circle

Author : Kathleen Spivack
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781555537654

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With Robert Lowell and His Circle by Kathleen Spivack Pdf

In 1959 Kathleen Spivack won a fellowship to study at Boston University with Robert Lowell. Her fellow students were Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, among others. Thus began a relationship with the famous poet and his circle that would last to the end of his life in 1977 and beyond. Spivack presents a lovingly rendered story of her time among some of the most esteemed artists of a generation. Part memoir, part loose collection of anecdotes, artistic considerations, and soulful yet clear-eyed reminiscences of a lost time and place, hers is an intimate portrait of the often suffering Lowell, the great and near great artists he attracted, his teaching methods, his private world, and the significant legacy he left to his students. Through the story of a youthful artist finding her poetic voice among literary giants, Spivack thoughtfully considers how poets work. She looks at friendships, addiction, despair, perseverance and survival, and how social changes altered lives and circumstances. This is a beautifully written portrait of friends who loved and lived words, and made great beauty together. A touching and deeply revealing look into the lives and thoughts of some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, With Robert Lowell and His Circle will appeal to writers, students, and thoughtful literary readers, as well as to scholars.

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040655263

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Manic Power by Jeffrey Meyers Pdf

Author : Robert Lowell,Elizabeth Hardwick
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780571357420

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The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979 by Robert Lowell,Elizabeth Hardwick Pdf

The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circle - writers, intellectuals, friends, and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Rich - the book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of their twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation. Lowell's controversial sonnet-sequence The Dolphin (for which he used Hardwick's letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwick's influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Essays on Women in Literature and Sleepless Nights: A Novel. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriages, children, and friends, and of the feelings that their personal crises gave rise to. The Dolphin Letters, masterfully edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of art - what occasions a work of art, what moral and artistic license artists have to make use of their lives as material, what formal innovations such debates give rise to. The crisis of Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone surrounding him, and Bishop's warning to Lowell - 'art just isn't worth that much' - haunts.

Author : Gail Crowther
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982138424

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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz by Gail Crowther Pdf

"A dual biography of poets, friends, and rivals Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton"--

Author : D. Furr
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230109919

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Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell by D. Furr Pdf

Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 1930's through the mid-century performances of poets such as Dylan Thomas and Anne Sexton.

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0374135258

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Day by Day by Robert Lowell Pdf

Collected verses focus on the American poet's memories of family and school, marriage, recent life in England, and present home in Kent

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Life studies by Robert Lowell Pdf

Author : Stephen Yenser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1002499291

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Circle to Circle. The Poetry of Robert Lowell by Stephen Yenser Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Bishop,Robert Lowell
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780374722876

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Words in Air by Elizabeth Bishop,Robert Lowell Pdf

Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that "you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry," and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me letters—they always manage to make me feel like my higher self (I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. The substantial, revealing—and often very funny—interchange that they produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two of America's most beloved and influential poets.

Author : Kay Redfield Jamison
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307744616

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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison Pdf

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell’s story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell’s illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was—both despite and because of mental illness—a passionate, original observer of the human condition.

Author : Seamus Heaney
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571250745

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District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Pdf

Seamus Heaney's new collection starts 'in an age of bare hands and cast iron' and ends 'as the automatic lock / clunks shut' in the eerie new conditions of a menaced twentieth-first century. In their haunted, almost visionary clarity, the poems assay the weight and worth of what has been held in the hand and in the memory. Images out of a childhood spent safe from the horrors of World War II - railway sleepers, a sledgehammer, the 'heavyweight silence' of cattle out in rain - are coloured by a strongly contemporary sense that 'anything can happen' and other images from the dangerous present - a journey on the underground, a melting glacier - are fraught with this same anxiety. But District and Circle, which includes a number of prose poems and translations, offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground in the hiding places of love and excited language. In a sequence like 'The Tollund Man in Springtime' and in several poems which 'do the rounds of the district' - its known roads and rivers and trees, its familiar and unfamiliar ghosts - the gravity of memorial is transformed into the grace of recollection. With more relish and conviction than ever, Seamus Heaney maintains his trust in the obduracy of workaday realities and the mystery of everyday renewals.

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374712181

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Memoirs by Robert Lowell Pdf

A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs

Author : Steven Axelrod,Helen Deese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521378036

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Robert Lowell by Steven Axelrod,Helen Deese Pdf

Robert Lowell is one of the most widely recognised and influential poets of the second half of this century. Yet his career is problematical and raises many questions about direction and quality, particularly in light of his repeated reorientation of thematic concern and poetic technique. Many previous studies of the poet have accounted for these radical differences in Lowell's work by examining the poet's private life, but this collection of essays attempts to reassess Lowell's poetry and to restimulate critical thinking about it by focusing on his texts to raise new questions and discussions about the work. The twelve essays in this volume, by many of the most distinguished scholars in the field, offer a chronological review of Robert Lowell's career as a poet. The book includes pieces on major works such as Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, 'Skunk Hour', Notebook, the sonnets of 1969-73 as well as four essays devoted to Lowell's last complete and often neglected work, Day by Day. Employing a variety of methodologies, the essays arrive at innovative and, often, controversial interpretations of Lowell's poems.

Author : Eileen Simpson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374713003

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Poets in Their Youth by Eileen Simpson Pdf

In 1942, Eileen Simpson—then Eileen Mulligan—married John Berryman. Both were in their twenties; Eileen had just graduated from Hunter College and John had but one slim volume of poetry to his name. They moved frequently—from New York to Boston, then Princeton—chasing jobs, living simply, relying on the hospitality of more successful friends like Robert Lowell and Jean Stafford, or R. P. Blackmur and his wife, Helen. Rounding out their circle of intimates were other struggling poets like Randall Jarrell and Delmore Schwartz. Berryman alternately wrote and despaired of writing. Everyone stayed up late arguing about poetry. Poets in Their Youth is a portrait of their marriage, yes, but it is also a portrait of a group of spectacularly intelligent friends at a particular time, in a particular place, all aflame with literature. Simpson's recollections are so tender, her narrative so generous, it is almost possible to imagine the story has a different ending—even as Schwartz's marriage crumbles, as Lowell succumbs to a manic episode, as her own relationship with Berryman buckles under the strain of his drinking, his infidelity, his depression. Filled with winning anecdotes and moments of startling poignancy, Simpson's now classic memoir shows some of the most brilliant literary minds of the second half of the twentieth century at their brightest and most achingly human.

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781640140288

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Robert Lowell in a New Century by Thomas Austenfeld Pdf

New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles.