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Robert Lowell in a New Century - European and American Perspectives (Hardcover)
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Robert Lowell in a New Century - European and American Perspectives (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in American Literature and Culture
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New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century
American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles. Robert
Lowell (1917-1977) holds a place of unchallenged prominence in the
poetic pantheon of the twentieth-century United States. He is an
essential focal point for understanding the connection between
poetry and American history,social justice, and personal identity.
A recent spate of publications both by and about him, as well as
allusions to him in the work of major American poets such as Wanda
Coleman and Claudia Rankine, attest to his continued relevance. In
March 2017, leading Lowell scholars from Europe and America
gathered at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in
commemoration of his 100th birthday. The essays deriving from the
conference and presented here aftercareful revision reveal new
aspects of Lowell: for instance, the poet's influence on his peers,
discussed by Thomas Travisano, the biographer of Elizabeth Bishop;
or echoes of Milton in Lowell's work, discussed by Saskia Hamilton,
editor of the forthcoming Dolphin Letters between Lowell and
Elizabeth Hardwick. Other essays examine Lowell's struggles with
bipolar illness, with marriage, and with money; his economic views
and his early personality issues with respect to his poetic
production; his extended sojourn in Amsterdam; and his special
relationship with Ireland. Several essays focus on his 1961 volume
Imitations, his major poetic engagement with the European
tradition, unjustly neglected in the US. The essays will appeal to
the wide audience that Lowell scholarship continues to command.
Contributors: Steven Gould Axelrod, Massimo Bacigalupo, Philip
Coleman, Ian D. Copestake, Astrid Franke, Jo Gill, Saskia Hamilton,
Frank J. Kearful, Grzegorz Kosc, Diederik Oostdijk, Francesco
Rognoni, Thomas Travisano, Boris Vejdovsky. Thomas Austenfeld is
Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg.
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