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Tag: Robert Lowell

149. (Robert Lowell)

“Self-accusation,” writes Geoffrey Hill, “is the life-blood of Romanticism.” For a long time, I thought Lowell a late-Romantic, working back, … More

American poetry, Baudelaire, rhetoric, Robert Lowell

99. (William Empson)

Whatever else its relationship to genre, wit is a particular way of coping with the world’s fragility, its tendency to … More

Alexander Pope, Andrew Marvell, Baudelaire, Christina Rossetti, Christopher Ricks, Jonathan Swift, Poetry, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot, William Empson, wit

93. (Elizabeth Bishop)

She shares with Eugenio Montale a novel sense of what epiphany a poem can or should seek or record. She only … More

American poetry, Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, epiphany, Marianne Moore, Montale, Poetry, Robert Lowell, Shelley, Yeats

92. (Robert Lowell)

My mind is snared by wit, and Marvell’s wit in particular. The Greatness of that poet, once proclaimed, has burned … More

American poetry, Andrew Marvell, Poetry, Robert Lowell, wit

68. (Robert Lowell)

Here is another attempt at the Lowell muddle, since the last was either abstruse or wrong. Lowell’s poetry can profitably … More

Geoffrey Hill, Poetry, rhetoric, Robert Lowell, Romantics, T.S. Eliot

67. (Robert Lowell)

The disservice of the term “Confessional Poetry,” coined by M.L. Rosenthal in 1957 to describe not only Robert Lowell’s poetry, … More

modern poetry, Poetry, punctuation, Robert Lowell

17. (Charles Baudelaire)

Robert Lowell’s 1961 Imitations did more for the reputation of twentieth-century poets Mandelstam and Montale than it did for the … More

Anthony Hecht, Baudelaire, Carne-Ross, Geoffrey Hill, Questions, Robert Lowell, Translation
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