Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell

Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell
Author: Joan Romano Shifflett
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2020-06-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0807173827

Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong, well-documented friendships with one another, often discussing each other’s work in private correspondence and published reviews. Joan Romano Shifflett’s Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry traces the artistic and personal connections between the three writers. Her study uncovers the significance of their parallel literary development and reevaluates dominant views of how American poetry evolved during the mid-twentieth century. Familiar accounts of literary history, most prominently the celebration of Lowell’s Life Studies as a revolutionary breakthrough into confessional poetry, have obscured the significance of the deep connections that Lowell shared with Warren and Jarrell. They all became quite close in the 1930s, with the content and style of their early poetry revealing the impact of their mentors John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, whose aesthetics the three would ultimately modify and transform. The three poets achieved professional maturity and success in the 1940s, during which time they relied on one another’s honest critiques as they experimented with changes in subject matter and modes of expression. Shifflett shows that their works of the late 1940s were heavily influenced by Robert Frost. This period found Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell infusing ostensibly simple verse with multifaceted layers of meaning, capturing the language of speech in diction and rhythm, and striving to raise human experience to a universal level. During the 1950s, the three poets became public figures, producing major works that addressed the nation’s postwar need to reconnect with humanity. Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell continued to respond in interlocking ways throughout the 1960s, with each writer using innovative stylistic techniques to create a colloquy with readers that directed attention away from superficial matters and toward the important work of self-reflection. Drawing from biographical materials and correspondence, along with detailed readings of many poems, Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell offers a compelling new perspective on the shaping of twentieth-century American poetry.

Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell

Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell
Author: Joan Romano Shifflett
Publisher: LSU Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2020-06-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0807173819

Robert Penn Warren, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell maintained lifelong, well-documented friendships with one another, often discussing each other’s work in private correspondence and published reviews. Joan Romano Shifflett’s Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry traces the artistic and personal connections between the three writers. Her study uncovers the significance of their parallel literary development and reevaluates dominant views of how American poetry evolved during the mid-twentieth century. Familiar accounts of literary history, most prominently the celebration of Lowell’s Life Studies as a revolutionary breakthrough into confessional poetry, have obscured the significance of the deep connections that Lowell shared with Warren and Jarrell. They all became quite close in the 1930s, with the content and style of their early poetry revealing the impact of their mentors John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, whose aesthetics the three would ultimately modify and transform. The three poets achieved professional maturity and success in the 1940s, during which time they relied on one another’s honest critiques as they experimented with changes in subject matter and modes of expression. Shifflett shows that their works of the late 1940s were heavily influenced by Robert Frost. This period found Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell infusing ostensibly simple verse with multifaceted layers of meaning, capturing the language of speech in diction and rhythm, and striving to raise human experience to a universal level. During the 1950s, the three poets became public figures, producing major works that addressed the nation’s postwar need to reconnect with humanity. Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell continued to respond in interlocking ways throughout the 1960s, with each writer using innovative stylistic techniques to create a colloquy with readers that directed attention away from superficial matters and toward the important work of self-reflection. Drawing from biographical materials and correspondence, along with detailed readings of many poems, Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell offers a compelling new perspective on the shaping of twentieth-century American poetry.

Robert Lowell In Context

Robert Lowell In Context
Author: Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2024-04-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009465708

Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell
Author: Steven Gould Axelrod
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2015-03-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 140086710X

This major interpretation of the life and art of Robert Lowell exposes the full relationship between the poetry and the personal and national experience to which it is so remarkably connected. Steven Axelrod proposes that the key to our understanding of Lowell's poetic achievement lies precisely in this interpenetration of his life and his art. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell
Author: Ian Hamilton
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2011-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0571282628

Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third book, he found the intense, highly personal voice that made him the foremost American poet of his generation. He held strong, complex and very public political views. His private life was turbulent, marred by manic depression and troubled marriages. But in this superb biography (first published in 1982) the poet Ian Hamilton illuminates both the life and the work of Lowell with sympathetic understanding and consummate narrative skill. 'Our one consolation for Ian Hamilton's early death is that his work seems to have lived on with undiminished force... The critical prose, in particular, still sets a standard that nobody else comes near.' Clive James

Critical Essays on Robert Penn Warren

Critical Essays on Robert Penn Warren
Author: William Bedford Clark
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1981
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Synthesizes much of the significant criticism dealing with Warren's works over almost half a century (1930-79), emphasising the novels, particularly the earlier ones. Critics represented are Richard Howard, Allan Nevins, Morton Zabel, Christopher Isherwood, Malcolm Cowley, Joseph Epstein and Richard Sale.

Selected Poems: Expanded Edition

Selected Poems: Expanded Edition
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2006
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374530068

." . .Over 200 works, culled from each of Lowell's books of verse. . . are a perfectly chosen representation of 'the greatest American poet of the mid-century.'"--Richard Poirier, "Book Week."

New Selected Poems

New Selected Poems
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0374716943

In this condensed edition of Selected Poems, Robert Lowell’s poems are brought together from all of his books of verse. Chosen and introduced by Katie Peterson on the occasion of Robert Lowell’s one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a perfectly chosen and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.

Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor
Author: James Curry Robison
Publisher: Macmillan Reference USA
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1988
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

In Part I, Robison examines 26 of Taylor's representative stories with introductory and concluding remarks and five sections in which the works are discussed in a generally chronological order. The writer is the focus of Part II, which contains interviews and personal reminiscences, to give the reader a sense of the personality behind the stories. Part III contains excerpts from some of the most enlightening essays on Taylor's stories. The author seeks to give a sense of Taylor's place in the world of contemporary short fiction. By looking at the influences on his work, then at features of theme and style that distinguish his stories, Robison shows prints of constancy and change that have merged in Taylor's fiction in the progress of his long career. Finally, he comments on the cumulative effects of these stories and points out some of Taylor's contributions to the genre. ISBN 0-8057-8303-2: $18.95.

Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs

Robert Lowell, Interviews and Memoirs
Author: Robert Lowell
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1988
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780472100897

A collection of conversations with Lowell and of critical reflections on his work