Robert Lowell (Poet to Poet)

Author: Lowell, Robert

Brand: Penguin Random House

Edition: Main - Poet to Poet

Binding: paperback

Number Of Pages: 128

Release Date: 29-01-2008

Part Number: 9780571230402

Details: Product Description
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to the most important poets in our literature.Robert Lowell (1917-77) was born in Boston. Life Studies, published in 1959, was a watershed in American poetry, initiating an autobiographical project that became the dominating feature of his work and shaped poetry on both sides of the Atlantic. He was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including For the Union Dead (1964) and Day by Day (1977). Faber published his Collected Poems in 2003.
About the Author
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was born in Boston. He was recognised as an accomplished poet in his own lifetime, and along with Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath he created the fashion and generated the force of American poetry over the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
Life Studies, published in 1959, marked a watershed. It initiated an autobiographical project which would dominate his oeuvre thereafter, and is now regarded as one of the most influential books of the century. He received a Pulitzer Prize for
Lord Weary's Castle (1946) and another for
The Dolphin (1973).

Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the
Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in
Behind the Lines (2001).
Ashes for Breakfast
- his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his
Selected Poems was published in 2008.

EAN: 9780571230402

Package Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.7 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English