Verlag:
Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
"A complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the...
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Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
Signatur:
A 2024/2519
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"A complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell's lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell's mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell's reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowell's expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell's achievement." --
x, 387 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten,
Illustrationen,
24 cm
Bemerkung(en):
Includes bibliographical references
Part I. My autobiography -- Part II. Crisis and aftermath -- Part III. A life among writers -- Appendix. Selected fragments from the manuscripts -- Genealogical chart I. The Winslows, the Starks, and the Devereuxs -- Genealogical chart II. The Lowells and the Myerses -- Timeline.