Robert Lowell's Language of the Self

by Katherine Wallingford

Katharine Wallingford's incisive study treats Robert Lowell's work as a poetry of self-examination and explores the ways in which he used methods common to psychoanalysis and other forms of psychotherapy in his poetry. Although he was never psychoanalyzed in a strictly Freudian sense, Lowell spent many years in psychotherapy. Wallingford stresses not the pathological aspects of Lowell's work, however, but rather his lifelong process of self-examination,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857149
• ISBN13: 9780807857144
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"