Notebook 1967-68

by Robert Lowell

Book Overview

A pivotal book in Robert Lowell's groundbreaking career, Notebook is, as Seamus Heaney has written, "a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of immeditae, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006BYVDU
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 161 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

It's Been Years, but the residue...

...of this brilliant volume persists in mind. After all these months spent buried in other books, it's incredible that such lines as "off ering our leathery love/ we're fifty, and free!" stick with me. Lowell's descriptions of souls in Hell is unsettling, while he wears one vital influence (Fugitive John Crowe Ransom), while also tackling world unrest.I will certainly be rereading this book. If there was ever a doubt as to Lowell's genius, it's cut apart by this and other staggering works. A must read.