Lowellship
John Bayley, 17 September 1987
Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry
edited by Steven GouldAxelrod and Helen Deese.
Cambridge, 377 pp., £17.50, June 1987,0 571 14979 0 Show More
edited by Steven GouldAxelrod and Helen Deese.
Cambridge, 377 pp., £17.50, June 1987,
Collected Prose
by Robert Lowell, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux.
Faber, 269 pp., £27.50, February 1987,0 521 30872 0 Show More
by Robert Lowell, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux.
Faber, 269 pp., £27.50, February 1987,
“... in art is Fifty years of snapshots, The ladder of ripening likeness. In his introductory essay Steven GouldAxelrod writes that ‘Lowell felt so personally contingent that he dedicated himself to a task of self-creation in an unfinishable discourse, spent his life pushing across the borders of his previous ... ”
