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Editorial Reviews
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Starred Review. With Collected Poems (2003) and last year's Letters, this selection—a much-expanded version by Bidart of Lowell's own late-life culling—brings the Herculean effort of restoring Lowell's oeuvre to print and prominence near completion. Next to the colossal Collected Poems, this is a formidable book in its own right, offering a distilled view of the arc of Lowell's whole career and of each of his individual books. From the early formal triumphs of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs to the seminal Life Studies (which is presented here in its entirety and includes what may be Lowell's most overarching characterization of his work: "I myself am hell"); from the tense and arguably unscrupulous sonnets of History and For Lizzie and Harriet to the dark resolve of The Dolphin and Day by Day: all of Lowell's varied modes are generously represented, along with Bidart's notes from Collected Poems. This book finally makes the breadth of Lowell's great achievement accessible in a single, portable volume. (Nov.)
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Starred Review. With Collected Poems (2003) and last year's Letters, this selection—a much-expanded version by Bidart of Lowell's own late-life culling—brings the Herculean effort of restoring Lowell's oeuvre to print and prominence near completion. Next to the colossal Collected Poems, this is a formidable book in its own right, offering a distilled view of the arc of Lowell's whole career and of each of his individual books. From the early formal triumphs of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs to the seminal Life Studies (which is presented here in its entirety and includes what may be Lowell's most overarching characterization of his work: "I myself am hell"); from the tense and arguably unscrupulous sonnets of History and For Lizzie and Harriet to the dark resolve of The Dolphin and Day by Day: all of Lowell's varied modes are generously represented, along with Bidart's notes from Collected Poems. This book finally makes the breadth of Lowell's great achievement accessible in a single, portable volume. (Nov.)
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"If more people read poetry, if it were more exportable and translatable, surely [Lowell's] poems would go far towards changing, or at least unsettling, minds made up against us. Somehow or other, by fair means or fowl, and in the middle of our worst century so far, we have produced a magnificent poet."--Elizabeth Bishop
"The poems collected here reveal the grandeur and magnitude of Lowell's accomplishment."--James Atlas, The New Republic
"Selected Poems provides the best possible entry into the imaginative universe of Robert Lowell. Those who have not followed [his] career volume by volume now have a chance to come to terms with one of our major poets."--Marjorie Perloff, The Washington Post Book World
"The poems collected here reveal the grandeur and magnitude of Lowell's accomplishment."--James Atlas, The New Republic
"Selected Poems provides the best possible entry into the imaginative universe of Robert Lowell. Those who have not followed [his] career volume by volume now have a chance to come to terms with one of our major poets."--Marjorie Perloff, The Washington Post Book World
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