Robert Lowell : setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307700278 (hardcover) :
- ISBN: 0307700275
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Physical Description:
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xix, 532 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-510) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Old Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1845 ; "The trouble with writing poetry" -- I. Introduction: Steel and fire. No tickets for that altitude ; The archangel loved heights -- II. Origins: the puritanical iron hand of constraint. Sands of the unknown ; This dynamited brook ; A brackish reach -- III. Illness: the kingdom of the mad. In flight, without a ledge ; Snow-sugared, unraveling ; Writing takes the ache away -- IV. Character: how will the heart endure?. With all my love, Cal ; And will not scare -- V. Illness and art: something altogether lived. A magical orange grove in a nightmare ; Words meat-hooked from the living steer -- VI. Mortality: Come; I bell thee home. Life blown towards evening ; Bleak-boned with survival ; He is out of bounds now -- Appendix I: Psychiatric records of Robert Lowell ; Appendix II: Mania and depression: clinical description, diagnosis and nomenclature ; Appendix III: Medical history of Robert Lowell (by Thomas Traill, FRCP). |
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Subject: | Lowell, Robert -- 1917-1977 -- Mental health Manic-depressive persons -- United States -- Biography Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography Genius and mental illness Creative ability |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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Williams Lake Branch | 616.8950092 LOW (Text) | 33923005902949 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |