Life Studies

By: Robert Lowell

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Paperback | 8 May 2001 | Edition Number 1

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112 Pages

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Robert Lowell's family memoir, first published in 1959.

Life Studies was first published in 1959.

'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious objector among gangsters and Jehovah's witnesses, the private citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital. He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: 'but they weren't,' he can answer: 'They are now'.' - Randall Jarrell

Industry Reviews

A new book of poems by Pulitzer Prize Winning author of the memorable Lord Weary's Castle is always a literary event. Since his last book, The Mills of the Kavanaughs appeared in 1951 we have heard nothing from this gifted poet. Now in Life Studies he gives brief but scintillating glimpses of his life and experiences over years that have offered far reaches, but at their end he is still the Puritan (member of a renowned family), a Catholic convert, and still reliving his relationships with Mother, Father, uncles and a grandfather. And mentally he seems still to be beating against the poles of introversion and release. The particulars of his poems are, as always, "powerful, homely, grotesque but exactly appropriate." His work is highly organized and intense. It still has "thrust and density." And besides these familiar qualities, there is a new and touching one in his sensitive handling of personal relationships. When Lord Weary's Castle first appeared, Lowell was compared with Auden. While his own niche is still secure, this volume would not seem to bear out that promise. A fine talent, which perhaps needs a broadened horizon. This is an essential item for all lovers of poetic literature. (Kirkus Reviews)

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