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Memoirs (Paperback)
Robert Lowell; Edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Grzegorz Kosc
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A provocative new study that identifies a deep structure -- that of
the political body -- in Frost's poetry. In Robert Frost's poetry
lives the figure of an authoritative public body: a physical, human
body that personifies classical liberalism. A deep structure, it
manifests itself in his images, the characterization of his
speakers, their tones of voice, and -- most crucially -- in his
sense of poetry's appropriate scope. To glimpse this political
body, Grzegorz Kosc interrogates the poet's views on a number of
subjects never explored by Frost criticism: Maya monumental art;
Shelley's bodies of sensibility and martyrdom; the bodies of US
presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft; the
association of radical liberalism with bodily deformation; the
ulteriority of physical behavior; the popularity of statuettes that
supplanted traditional, monumental sculptures of political leaders.
For Frost, all these yielded important clues to the writing of a
good poem, which had to have the features of a well-shaped,
self-disciplined, and stoic body. The final chapter explores the
images of Frost's own body used for the frontispieces of the
reprint editions of his poetry, images that are the symbols of
Frost's aesthetics. Hence the book's title, which not only points
to the central structure of Frost's poetry but also suggests that
the poet envisioned his own portrait as illustrating the body of
political power underlying his aesthetics. Grzegorz Kosc is
Assistant Professor at the University of Lodz and the University of
Warsaw, Poland. He is former President of the Robert Frost Society.
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Memoirs (Hardcover)
Robert Lowell; Edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Grzegorz Kosc
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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.
This collection brings together new and original critical essays by
eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore
the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an
academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it
examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil
rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the
transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture
movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's
status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the
Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and
the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.
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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