Life Studies and For the Union Dead (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	October 2007
Authors:	Robert Lowell
Dimensions:	208 x 139 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	64
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-53096-9
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	English
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-374-53096-3
Barcode:	9780374530969

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