Robert Lowell

Lowell’s Bedlam: John McCullough

All acts of observation are partial and reveal as much about the observer as the observed.

Tagged as: Alfred Corn, Czar Lepke, Daniel Ricken, David Manson, Dick Jaffee, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Mercer, Jean Stafford, Lowell’s Bedlam, Lowri Lewis, Memories of West Street and Lepke, Palm Leaves, Robert Lowell, Roger Sansom, Tennyson

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Lowell’s Bedlam: M G Stephens

by M G Stephens Poetry and Poetics

Alfred Corn’s play gives us an inner portrait of Robert Lowell that is not found in either the biography or the poetry itself.

Tagged as: Alfred Corn, bipolar, Confessionalism, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Hardwick, John McCullough, Leonie Scott-Matthews, Lowell’s Bedlam, M G Stephens, manic depression, Pentameters Theatre, Pitney Akins, Robert Lowell, The Horseshoe

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Alfred Corn’s play Lowell’s Bedlam

by Poetry Blog Editors Poems of the Week

[April 7, London]

Tagged as: Alfred Corn, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Hardwick, Lowell's Bedlam, Pentameters Theater, play, Robert Lowell, theater

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Literary Movements: Insider as Outsider and Token Renegade

by Joe Weil Academia

When gaining a foothold among the establishment, it is important the so called “outsiders” or mavericks have a figure fully anchored within the establishment who can be “acceptable.”

Tagged as: Allen Tate, Black Mountain, Confessionalism, Deep Image, Ezra Pound, Gender, imagists, John Crowe Ransom, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Merwin, New York School, Objectivist, Outsider, Queer, Randal Jarrell, Renegade, Robert Bly, Robert Lowell, Robert Penn Warren, slam, Socialist, Surrealists, Token, William Carlos Williams

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Seventeen Years Ago Last March: Elizabeth Bishop’s Grand Finale

by Adam Fitzgerald Art

‘Crusoe in England’ was first published in The New Yorker in 1971, then later collected in ‘Geography III,’ perhaps Bishop’s finest single volume of poems. (Only recently I discovered the title of which was suggested to her by John Ashbery. He had found a little geography textbook of the eponymous name, and sent it to her, thinking she’d rather enjoy it. Turns out, she did.)

Tagged as: Bonnard, Christopher Ricks, Crusoe in England, Don Quixote, Elizabeth Bishop, Fairfield Porter, Harold Bloom, Helen Vendler, James Merrill, John Ashbery, Robert Lowell, W.H. Auden

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Blogging through Grossman, Part 3: Poetic Promiscuity.

by Micah Towery Art

We recent poets have two great tools at our disposal: freedom of poetic license, and freedom of publishing. Generally, we can say whatever we want, and get a significant number of people to hear what we have to say. The question is whether this freedom has led to better poetry or degeneration. Perhaps that’s not the best way to put it. The question should be, even if somebody is doing something amazing and new in poetry, would we even see it? Will we travel all this way to find that we really did need the gatekeepers of poetry??

Tagged as: A. R. Ammons, Allen Ginsberg, Allen Grossman, Armond White, Chris Robinson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Confessionalists, Ezra Pound, Film and TV, Hart Crane, John Ashbery, Oxnian Review, Persons, Poetry and Poetics, Post-modernism, Publishing, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot, The Sighted Singer, W. B. Yeats

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Some Books on My Mind, or {Potential} Purchases of Imperishables

by Adam Fitzgerald Art

Hands up, anyone who has read the whole of Herodotus and the whole of Thucydides! And Saint-Simon? And Cardinal de Retz? But even the great nineteenth-century cycles of novels are more often talked about than read.

Tagged as: Anthony Hecht, art criticism, Balzac, Christopher Ricks, Clement Greenberg, David Lynch, Dickens, directing, Emile Zola, Ezra Pound, Film and TV, Geoffrey Hill, interviews, Italo Calvino, Jules Laforgue, Painting, Poetry and Poetics, Robert Lowell, T.S. Eliot

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Robert Lowell

Lowell’s Bedlam: John McCullough

Lowell’s Bedlam: M G Stephens

Alfred Corn’s play Lowell’s Bedlam

Literary Movements: Insider as Outsider and Token Renegade

Seventeen Years Ago Last March: Elizabeth Bishop’s Grand Finale

Blogging through Grossman, Part 3: Poetic Promiscuity.

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