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Life Studies and for the Union Dead - (FSG Classics) by Robert Lowell (Paperback)

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  • Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes.
  • About the Author: Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was the author of a dozen volumes of poetry, for which he twice received the Pulitzer Prize.
  • 176 Pages
  • Poetry, American
  • Series Name: FSG Classics

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Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.



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"Robert Lowell is, by something like a critical consensus, the greatest American poet of the mid-century . . . More than any contemporary writer, poet, or novelist, Lowell has created the language, cool and violent all at once, of contemporary introspection." --Richard Poirier, Book Week

"Life Studies gives us the naked psyche of a suffering man in a hostile world, and Lowell's way to manage this material, to keep it, is by his insistent emphasis on form. The natural heir to Eliot and pound as well as to Crane, he extends their methods." --M. L. Rosenthal, Salamagundi




About the Author



Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was the author of a dozen volumes of poetry, for which he twice received the Pulitzer Prize.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.2 Inches (H) x 5.5 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .4 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 176
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Series Title: FSG Classics
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback
Author: Robert Lowell
Language: English
Street Date: October 16, 2007
TCIN: 77257947
UPC: 9780374530969
Item Number (DPCI): 247-52-6465
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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