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Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character

text Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character

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"The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness,... Read more
Contents
Prologue: Old Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1845 ; "The trouble with writing poetry" -- I. Introduction: Steel and fire -- No tickets for that altitude -- The archangel loved heights -- II. Origins: The puritanical iron hand of constraint --... Read more
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xix, 532 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 921 LOWELL, ROBERT JAM in Adult Non-fiction Available

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