Reviews cover a range of works, including those about
Robert Lowell, Mary Robinson, Queen Noor, and Virginia Woolf.
It is not merely the case that Heaney adopts the form and diction of the High Modernists -- Yeats, Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and Auden (as well as
Robert Lowell, their immediate heir) -- but that he partakes of their problems, most specifically the task of establishing a voice in the face of distinct conditions: coming late in a culture, being massively learned, being exposed to multiple pasts and violent histories, knowing many languages, and facing the withering self-consciousness of modern man.
Born and educated in Pennsylvania, Snodgrass served in the Navy before studying at the University of Iowa, for a time with <IR>
ROBERT LOWELL </IR> .
He also recalls his interactions with important writers such as
Robert Lowell, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor.
Robinson to
Robert Lowell, shows Jarrell at his best: a critic at once candid and generous, brazen and deliberate, with a prose style to rival anyone's.
The poet <IR>
ROBERT LOWELL </IR> was her first husband (1940-1948).
Using postmodern, postcolonial, Derridean deconstructionist, feminist, and other approaches, they consider such topics as the new Northern Irish literature exemplified by Glann Patterson and Ciaran Carson, the plurality of gay identity in Fran McGuiness' drama, the new woman and the boy in fin de siecle Irish fiction, and
Robert Lowell and the lace-curtain Irish.
By this time he was taken up by a younger generation of poets, notably
Robert Lowell, and one might have thought that he belonged to their era, as in a sense he did.
Severe formality, a density of symbols, and allusions to classical and Christian myths characterize such eloquent, strenuously willed poems as "The Mediterranean," "Aeneas at Washington," "Sonnets at Christmas," "The Swimmers," and "The Buried Lake." Often more personal than they appear, Tate's poems--which have influenced <IR>
ROBERT LOWELL </IR> and Geoffrey Hill--explore the predicament of modern man, estranged by science and abstraction from religious ritual and a tradition rooted in a place.
That Davie, as an English poet and critic, should have given sustained attention to American poetry is notable in itself, and some of his choices are certainly major, as for instance William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and
Robert Lowell. Some are admittedly minor, such as Lorine Niedecker, Edgar Bowers, and proteges of Yvor Winters, for whom Davie had a higher regard both as poet and critic than do most American readers.
Eliot, and William Carlos Williams (1975); A Revolution in Taste: Studies in Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and
Robert Lowell (1978); A Company of Poets (1981); and The Character of the Poet (1986).
DAVID LASKIN'S PARTISANS, with its alluring subtitle "Marriages, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals," has an all-star cast: Edmund Wilson, Mary McCarthy,
Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, and Elizabeth Hardwick, among others.