Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry
- ISBN-10
- 0521378036
- ISBN-13
- 9780521378031
- Series
- Robert Lowell
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 286
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1986
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Authors
- Steven Axelrod, Helen Deese
Description
In her contribution to this volume, Sandra Gilbert describes Robert Lowell as "the bard of the mid-century." She goes on to express appreciation of the strange world of his work, and in a sense her essay epitomizes this collection's tone. Coming from a more than usually varied set of critical perspectives, this volume contains a couple of psychoanalytical readings, an interesting manuscript study by Alex Calder, a fine essay on Lowell and the visual arts by Helen Deese, new critical as well as vaguely poststructuralist readings, plus historical or biographical studies. ISBN 0-521-30872-0: $29.95.
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