The Poetry of Robert Lowell (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Lowell
- First Published: 1946
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Literature, Poetry or poets, Civil War
The Work
In his first major collection, Lord Weary’s Castle, Robert Lowell contextualizes his Catholicism, his aversion to World War II, and his antagonism to mercantile Boston with an Irish ballad about the little man’s exploitation by an immoral, all-powerful country. With demanding, intricate metrical forms and artificially charged language, the poems display Lowell’s characteristic themes of personal, national, and historical self-destruction in the face of eternal suffering. The poems unfold a “vision of destruction.” A sense of despair flows into such...
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