Life Studies and For the Union Dead (FSG Classics)

Lowell, Robert

ISBN 10: 0374530963 / ISBN 13: 9780374530969

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007

About this Item

Book shows general signs of use and handling. May have light wear on the cover or edges and minimal writing or highlighting. Binding remains tight, and pages are clean and readable.

Seller Inventory # CTXV.0374530963.G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life Studies and For the Union Dead (FSG Classics)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374530963
• ISBN 13: 9780374530969
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century―and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.

About the Author

Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was the renowned and pathbreaking author of many leading works in American poetry, including Life Studies (FSG, 1959), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Day by Day (FSG, 1977).