Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors: The Poetics of the Public & the Personal

by William Doreski

In the two decades that have passed since Robert Lowell's death, Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors is the first critical survey of the poet's aesthetic efforts to make personal vision and public exhortation cohere and thus combine poetic genres that have been historically discrete.

Rather than consider Lowell primarily as either a religious, political, or autobiographical poet, William Doreski proposes that Lowell's primary poetic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821412795
• ISBN13: 9780821412794
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"