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.... RICHARDBLESSING University of Washington Robert Lowell: Life and Art. By STEVENGOULD AXELROD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xiii + 286 pp. $14.50. The mixture of public and private topics in Robert Lowell’s autobiographical poetry suggests one way for American poets...

... and Genre in Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell (1994) as well as numerous articles on Renaissance and modern poetry, drama, and fiction. Lowelling and Laureling: Revising Gender and Genre in Robert Lowell’s Day by Day Barbara L. Estrin The man who keeps the Gorgon becomes the Gorgon.-Peter...

...Heyward Ehrlich Copyright © 1967 by Duke University Press 1967 CHARLES FREDERICK BRIGS AND LOWELL’S FABLE FOR CRIT’ICS By HEYWARDEHRLICH The full story of James Russell Lowell’s indebtedness to Charles Frederick Briggs...

... to the classroom teacher, the student, the intelligent general reader. RICHARDBLESSING University of Washington Robert Lowell: Life and Art. By STEVENGOULD AXELROD. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978. xiii + 286 pp. $14.50...

... problems are almost inevitably created: Is Miranda of Lowell’s A Fable for Critics at all a copy of Poe’s Zenobia? What is the connection between the Zenobia of Poe’s satires and Hawthorne’s Zenobia of The BZitlzeduZe Romance?* Although in 1838 Miss Fuller was not yet Poe’s only serious...

... shift in em- phasis from one to the other over the years. Neither conveyance sug- gests a deep literary-critical response. James Russell Lowell can speak for the older tradition. The famous trope from A Fable for Critics (1848) comes readily to mind: There comes Emerson first...

... made these associations-a question that the occasional nature of the texts makes it difficult to answer. How far could readers appropriate the cultural capital of a famous author’s name and text for their own agendas? Sullivan argues that when the poet laureate Robert Lowell addressed...

... usually drawn to one or the other. Likewise, Altieri re- sponds to both poetics with equal skill and never allows his scheme to obviate the need for sensitive attention to details of tone and structure. Altieri completes his scheme in the following way. Lowell is viewed as the last successful...

...). Skillman’s readings tend to follow the development of her poets’ careers, particularly as they transform their poiesis in response to personal experiences with and growing knowledge of brain science. From Robert Lowell to Jorie Graham and beyond, her poets are positioned in a twentieth-century literary...

...Gloria Aledort Levine Lowell Dunham, Gonzalo Barrios, and Ricardo Montilla. México: Ediciones de Andrea, “Colección Studium,” No. 15, 1957. Pp. 327. $3.85. Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1959 Gloria Aledort Levine 105...

..., had almost disappeared until it was revived in our time by Yeats and then, more fully, by Robert Lowell. Both Yeats and Lowell were so situated that studies of their families explore both their own antecedents and those of their countries, though this second interest is more to the fore...

...M. A. Goldberg THE “FEARS” OF JOHN KEATS By M. A. GOLDBERC The usual reading of Keats’s sonnet “When I have fears”-and in- deed, the usual reading of Keats as a whole-interprets the poetry as the very acme of melancholy. Amy Lowell finds in the sonnet...

...), 811; Amy Lowell, John Keats (Boston and New York, 1925), I, 324. I am not overlooking Bush’s suggested parallel between the passage in question and Chapman’s continuation of Marlowe’s Hero and Lewder, IV, 26 ff., in the Philologicul Qzlarterly, VIII (1929), 314. The passage from Drayton...

... in the archives in Spain.29 Contemporaneous with Hale were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, professor of classical and modern languages at Harvard, a position in which he taught French, Spanish, Italian, and German, and James Rus- sell Lowell, about whom Hale...

... returns.” The final stanza fills out the perfect rondure of the poem in a slow withdrawal, symbolized by the retreat of the bird itself so that 5 One must agree here with Amy Lowell that to object that the nightingale is obviously not immortal (see Robert Bridges, Introduction, Poems...

...: “In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?” (p. 12), which so sharply stung that thirty years later, James Russell Lowell, reviewing Longfellow’s Kawanagh,wrote, “The Stamp Act and the Boston Port Bill scarcely produced a greater excitement than the appalling question British...

... emerging con- sensus that Roethke must be judged, along with Robert Lowell, as one of the two American poets of his generation most likely to achieve a durable, major reputation. (Roethke was born in 1908, Lowell in 1917.) For most readers the verse which best represents this poet, and which...

.... Whip- ple, Lowell, Longfellow, Whittier, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Simms, and Moses Coit Tyler. The name of Bayard Taylor occurs in these letters, but none were addressed to him. Thus the correspond- ence of Taylor and Hayne, admirably edited by Charles Duffy, sup- plements the Hayne letters...

..., “would suffice . . . to Ethiopize the snowiest conscience that ever sat like a swan upon that mirror of heaven, a Christian maiden’s imagina- ti~nJames Russell Lowell gave the daughter test the imperativeness of an eleventh commandment: “let no man write a line that he would not have his...

... a national literature, in Whitman’s sense of the term, a corollary of his Americanism. Thus Lowell, despite gestures towards an origi- nal literature in the Introduction to the Second Series of The Big- low Papers, soon left no doubts that his opinion concerning nation- ality in literature had...