Robert Lowell: Nihilist as Hero
Vereen M. Bell
264 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0674775856
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1983
Vereen Bell gives us a subtly reasoned account of the pattern of Lowell’s poetry is characterized above all by its chronic and systematic pessimism, but that, paradoxically, Lowell’s reluctance to accept the consequences of his own unsparing vision is what gives his poetry its vigor, richness, and tonal complexity.