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Original Title:	Life Studies
ISBN:	0571046541 (ISBN13: 9780571046546)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Poetry (1960)

Life Studies

Robert Lowell

Hardcover | Pages: 90 pages

Rating: 4.01 | 314 Users | 34 Reviews

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Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. Helen Vendler called Life Studies Lowell's "most original book." It won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1960.

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Title	:	Life Studies
Author	:	Robert Lowell
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 90 pages
Published	:	1959 by Farrar, Straus and Cedahy
Categories	:	Poetry. The United States Of America. Academic. School. Literature. American

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Ratings: 4.01 From 314 Users | 34 Reviews

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Sporadically moving writing thats mostly dreadfully dull; theres much to admire and little that resonates here.

This is a unique collection in that I can't recall ever reading another where you see the poet's poetics transform linearly. Here, you see Lowell move from traditional formal verse to more confessional free verse forms. The problem is that the quality of the latter verse far exceeds the former.Parts one and two of the book feel terribly stiff and insular. Parts 3 and 4 - subtitled 'Life Studies' - are where Lowell's own music comes into play. In truth, the standout poems here are the familiar

"Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small" is one of the saddest lines I've ever read.

Revisiting a revolutionary book which seems more eccentric and brilliant with time-

Life Studies is a naked view of a man confessing his suffering to the world. I found these poems wonderfully accurate and imagistically beautiful. The poems of memory, and perspective are an amazing achievement. Lowells ability to look at events from the perspective of an adult remembers and interprets the experience and the child that experienced it, is quiet amazing. I have been dwelling on the images of the young child speaker in My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereaux Winslow, One of my hands



Am I wrong to think of Lowell as in the way of Whitman more than in the way of Dickinson? I really liked these poems. I have read a lot of poetry these past couple of years. This is magnificent and strange and took a long time to read.