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Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character
Record details
- ISBN: 0307700275 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780307700278 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0307700275 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780307700278 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780307700278 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0307700275 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
xix, 532 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-510) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | I. Introduction: Steel and Fire -- II. Origins: The Puritanical Iron Hand of Constraint -- III. Illness: The Kingdom of the Mad -- IV. Character: How Will the Heart Endure? -- V. Illness and Art: Something Altogether Lived -- Mortality: Come; I Bell Thee Home -- Appendix I: Psychiatric Records of Robert Lowell -- Appendix II: Mania and Depression: Diagnosis and Nomenclature -- Appendix III: Medical History of Robert Lowell (by Thomas Traill, FRCP). |
| Summary, etc.: | "The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work. His New England roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent writers, friendships with other poets, vivid presence as a teacher and writer refusing to give up in the face of mental illness--Jamison gives us Lowell's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of the poet's intense discipline, courage, and commitment to his art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical records, as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and was the first biographer to speak to his daughter. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison delivers a bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition"-- |
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| Subject: | Lowell, Robert 1917-1977 Mental health Manic-depressive persons United States Biography Poets, American 20th century Biography Genius and mental illness Creative ability |
| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 8 of 8 copies available at Bibliomation.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 811 LOWELL, R. JAMISON (Text) | 32544072445736 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Bethel Public Library | BIO LOWELL (Text) | 34030137420482 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | BIO LOW (Text) | 34055137542928 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Hotchkiss Library - Sharon | B Low (Text) | 33660137551026 | Upper Level Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Kent Memorial Library - Suffield | 616.89 LOWELL (Text) | 32518137612506 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Milford Public Library | 920 LOWELL ROBERT (Text) | 34013077605494 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | B LOWELL (Text) | 36123001506219 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Tolland Public Library | B LOWELL (Text) | 34051140119408 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
