With some features of an intellectual biography, this book offers a
radical re-examination of Robert Lowell's entire oeuvre. The author
finds in it a sustained, if erratic, effort to move beyond the
high-modernist paradigm. The book begins by exploring the aesthetic
and ethical dilemmas the poet was confronted with at the start of
his career, dilemmas which were only temporarily resolved in the
deceptive mode of confessionalism. Incorporating some material from
the poet's unpublished manuscripts, the author argues that the late
Lowell seeks a poetic mode that would be both more public and more
empathic. Inspired by - among others - Hannah Arendt, the poet
eventually refutes not just the high-modernist mode of the 1940s
but also the crypto-modernist confessionalism of the 1960s. The
book follows Lowell in his various post-modernist explorations to
show finally that Martin Heidegger can be usefully employed to read
the last volumes. Traces of Heideggerian critique of metaphysics
and his literary hermeneutics found in The Dolphin and Day by Day
illustrate the poet's unfulfilled ambition to develop an entirely
new poetics.
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