Robert Lowell était un poète américain dont les œuvres confessionnelles abordaient le cours de l'histoire et les recoins sombres du moi. Initialement influencée par sa conversion au catholicisme, sa poésie précoce et formellement rigoureuse explorait le passé sombre de l'Amérique, gagnant des éloges pour sa gestion puissante du mètre et de la rime. Plus tard, en réponse à des troubles personnels et psychologiques, son œuvre s'est orientée vers l'expérience personnelle directe avec une forme plus libre, créant une collection charnière qui a remodelé la poésie moderne. Considéré comme une voix prééminente de la poésie anglophone de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle, Lowell a défini le cœur inquiet de la poésie américaine.
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The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circle - writers, intellectuals, friends and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy and Adrienne Rich - this book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of Lowell and Hardwick's twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation. Lowell's sonnet sequence The Dolphin (for which he controversially adapted Hardwick's letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwick's influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature and Sleepless Nights. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriage, children, friends and the feelings that their personal tribulations gave rise to. The Dolphin Letters, edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of art - what occasions a work of art, and what moral and artistic licence artists have to make use of their lives and the lives of others as material. The crisis of Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone around him, and Bishop's warning that 'art just isn't worth that much' haunts us today.
The book is a reprint of a classic work originally published in 1864. It preserves the historical significance and context of the time, offering readers a glimpse into the themes and perspectives of that era. The reprint maintains the integrity of the original text, making it a valuable addition for those interested in literature from the 19th century and its lasting impact on contemporary thought.
Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition'. This book compiles a comprehensive selection of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle onwards.
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised by the author: there are additions, deletions, and a change in sequence in the Dolphin section; the five poems in the title sequence from Near the Ocean are now uncut; and a new poem is added to the "Nineteen Thirties."
Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; And Benito Cereno
This stage adaptation creatively weaves together classic tales from renowned authors Hawthorne and Melville, bringing their timeless narratives to life. Celebrated with five Obie Awards, the work showcases the unique themes and character dynamics of the original stories while offering a fresh theatrical experience. After a fifteen-year hiatus, it returns to the spotlight, inviting both new audiences and longtime fans to engage with these literary masterpieces in a compelling new format.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. Life Studies, published in 1959, was a watershed in American poetry, initiating an autobiographical project that became the dominating feature of his work and shaped poetry on both sides of the Atlantic.
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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.
