%0 Book
%A Paula Hayes
%D 2013
%C New York, United States of America
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9781453908365
%T Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice
%R 10.3726/978-1-4539-0836-5
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1051104
%X Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poet’s early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary’s Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowell’s early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowell’s early poetry is often overshadowed by the emergence of his confessional poetry (that develops in Life Studies; however, instead of Lowell’s early poetry being eclipsed by Life Studies, a remembrance of his early poetry is necessary as a way of understanding Lowell’s evolution as a poet. The early poetry provides readers and scholars of Lowell with a Puritan paradigm and the ethos of an American narrative that Lowell never fully abandons but only perpetually deconstructs.
%K relationship, poetry, evolution
%G English