Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle - Couverture rigide

Meyers, Jeffrey

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0333438019 ISBN 13 : 9780333438015

Editeur : Macmillan, 1987

A propos du livre

From Publishers Weekly

The four men whose intertwined lives are examined here for possible connection between madness and genius are considered among the greatest American poets of this century. The leader, perhaps because of his patrician origins as much as his excellence as a poet, is Lowell; those who looked to him are Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and Theodore Roethke. The four shared and expressed the view that madness is a personal source of poetic creativity as well as a reflection of contemporary society. Mental breakdown, extensive therapy, alcoholism, failed marriages and suicide were part of their sharing. As Meyers underscores, "The poets competed with each other in madness as an art, and flaunted their illness as a leper shows sores." An epilogue is devoted to the self-destructive poet Sylvia Plath, who Meyers, a professor at the University of Colorado, believes was influenced by these poets in the expression of her mental anguish.
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From Library Journal

This brief and bluntly clinical group biography and cultural history claims that, reacting to both the shared family pattern of weak or absent father/domineering mother and a society fascinated by self-destruction, Robert Lowell, father of "confessional" poetry, and his envious contemporaries Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and Theodore Roethke nourished one another's insanity. Their mental problems inspired them, served as the material for their poetry, and made them appearat least to themselvesthe hero-victims of the age. "Epilogue: Sylvia Plath" rounds out Meyers's anecdote-rich study, which supplements without duplicating Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth ( LJ 4/15/82) and Ian Hamilton's biography Robert Lowell ( LJ 12/1/82). Charles C. Nash, English Dept., Cottey Coll., Nevada, Mo.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1987
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0333438019
• ISBN 13: 9780333438015
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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