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The title poem, a meditation on the Civil War, the heroic Colonel Shaw, and modern Boston, shows Lowell at the height of his powers, writing in a free verse that has never been so utterly controlled. One does not want to speak about poetry achieved at this level; it is to be read, and learned.
Lowell’s is a poetry in the Symbolist tradition; its symbols, whether used to convey religious significance (as in his first two books) or to express psychological realities (as in his...
Oct 6, 2017 · Brooks and Warren said in Understanding Poetry that “one must teach by a constant and analytical use of concrete examples.” 9 This also describes exactly how, four decades later, Robert Lowell taught his literature students as well as those in his writing class.
The prose memoirs are the most triumphant example of his essential composure. The surface of them is all anecdote and caricature, malign and dazzling; but the interior is solid analysis of a...
Lowell was the first poet to be called “confessional,” and though he didn’t like the term, it gets right the poetry’s sense of breaking through a public surface into a hoard of personal material. Disclosure, in Lowell, manifests as equal parts ritual and chaos.
Jun 20, 2003 · Why Robert Lowell is America’s most important career poet. In his introduction to Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Frank Bidart writes that Lowell ...
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Through unsettling imagery, Lowell contrasts the understanding of history with the reality of history and the way that it affects the world around us. Lowell suggests that people struggle to record the reality of history as it escapes from them.
