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

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

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.

An Unquiet Mind, Touched with Fire, and other novels by Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, have all been bestselling. She is a psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Time named her a Hero of Medicine.

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ISBN 13	9780307744616
ISBN 10	0307744612
Title	Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Author	Kay Redfield Jamison
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2018-02-06
Number of pages	560
Prizes	Short-listed for Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2018
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