Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
- ISBN-10
- 0307700275
- ISBN-13
- 9780307700278
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 532
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Authors
- Thomas A. Traill, Kay R. Jamison
Description
"In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work"--
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