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Lost Puritan

A Life of Robert Lowell

Paul Mariani author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:WW Norton & Co

Published:3rd Jul '96

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Robert Lowell's poetry radically altered the American literary landscape, combining as it did family drama and an apocalyptic view of the history of our times. He won three Pulitzer Prizes and two National Book Awards for poetry. Married three times, always to writers, he had his dark side, suffering from crippling bouts of manic depression and alcoholism.

Using hundreds of Lowell's unpublished manuscripts and letters, and dozens of interviews, Paul Mariani has given us a balanced, passionate, and readable life, capturing the man, his age, and his place in literary history.

"[Mariani's] vigorous narrative style sparkles with rich details... These pages bring out the sheer interestingness of Lowell's mind as it is encountered in letters, prose reflections, and in a lifetimes of poems." -- William Pritchard

ISBN: 9780393313741

Dimensions: 236mm x 155mm x 28mm

Weight: 842g

552 pages