Life Studies and For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell

Life Studies and For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell

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.

Lowell, Robert: - Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Day by Day, The Dolphin, and History. FSG also published his Collected Prose in 1987.

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ISBN 13	9780374530969
ISBN 10	0374530963
Title	Life Studies and For the Union Dead
Author	Robert Lowell
Series	Fsg Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Year published	2007-10-16
Number of pages	176
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