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The achievement of Robert Lowell.(Books)(Critical Essay)
From: New Criterion
Date: 20040101
Author:Tillinghast, Richard
Robert Lowell was notably unlucky in Ian Hamilton's major biography written on him in 1983. Hamilton's biography, while impressively comprehensive, presented a damagingly wrong-headed and skewed picture of Lowell the man. The reading public on the whole has accepted Hamilton's portrait of Lowell as authentic, as they did in the case of another damaging biography of a poet, Lawrance Thompson's three-volume book on Robert Frost. As if by compensation, Lower is posthumously blessed in the new Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter. (1) Any "collected works" is a ...
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