The Collected Prose

Lowell, Robert; Giroux, Robert [Introduction]

ISBN 10: 0374126259 / ISBN 13: 9780374126254

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987

About this Item

Publisher: Farrar, Straus Giroux, New York, 1987.FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. As new. Unread. First Edition, First Printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Prose
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374126259
• ISBN 13: 9780374126254
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Weight: 16 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

This vast collection of Robert Lowell's uniformly vigorous and well-written essays, which first appeared in 1987, was edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, his longtime editor and friend. Ranging chronologically from a student paper on the Iliad that Lowell composed in 1935 to the unfinished essay, "New England and Further," on which he was working when he died in 1977, Collected Prose is a telling and fascinating compendium of the ideas, arguments, and opinions of one of modernity's most important poets. With many critical writings and book reviews concerning all manner of poets old and new (from Vergil and Ovid to Frost and Stevens, from Hopkins and "Epics" to Bishop and Plath) as well as recently discovered autobiograpical writings, two extended interviews, and learned yet approachable musings on everything from the Gettyburg Address to the art and craft of translation, this prose ominbus is must-reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century American literature.

About the Author

Robert Lowell (1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Day by Day, The Dolphin, and History. FSG also published his Collected Prose in 1987.