Collected Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Lowell
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Wives, Mothers, Twentieth century, Poetry or poets, Civil War, Fathers, Christianity, Catholics or Catholic Church, Jesus Christ, Church or churches, Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell is a massive volume that is a fitting monument to one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. It includes Lowell’s juvenilia in the appendix, his magazine versions of poems, variant lines and words, annotations to the poems, a chronology, and an index. The book has all the apparatus of a scholarly volume for a poet long dead and firmly established in the literary canon. Frank Bidart and David Gewanter, the editors of the book, are practicing poets, and Bidart was a close friend of Lowell, so it is a book to read and the...
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