
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness ; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle , winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his...

For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American poet--if you don't count Eliot--who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition."Frank...


Edmund Wilson wrote that Robert Lowell was "the only recent American poet -- if you don't count Eliot -- who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition." Randall Jarrell observed of him, "You feel before reading any new poem...