Collected Poems av Robert Lowell

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<p>The collected work of America''s pre-eminent post-war poet.<br><br>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''.<br><br>Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled a comprehensive edition of Lowell''s poems, from the early triumph of <i>Lord Weary''s Castle</i>, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, through the brilliant wilfulness of his <i>Imitations</i> of Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke and other masters, to the late spontaneity of his <i>History</i>, winner of another Pulitzer, and of his last book of poems, <i>Day by Day</i>. This volume includes several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell''s intriguing drafts.<br><br>As Randall Jarrell said, ''You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece''. Lowell''s <i>Collected Poems</i> offers the f