{"product_id":"robert-lowells-life-and-work-richard-w-tillinghast-9780472065707","title":"Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur","description":"Robert Lowell was regarded by many as the greatest American poet of his generation. \"Somehow or other...in the middle of our worst century so far,\" his contemporary and friend Elizabeth Bishop wrote, \"we have produced a magnificent poet.\" The scion of a distinguished New England family, Lowell crafted his poetry to comment on the nation's fate and even to influence the course of American politics. Along with Anne Sexton, John Berryman, and Sylvia Plath, he was a pioneer in the movement later known as Confessional Poetry, and his political gestures were often timely and controversial: his refusal of President Johnson's invitation to the White House came to symbolize the opposition of writers and intellectuals to the Vietnam War. Since Lowell's death in 1977, his reputation has suffered a decline; yet arguably no poet living today writes with the same authority, the same sense of grandeur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur\u003c\/i\u003e is a critical memoir by acclaimed poet Richard Tillinghast, a friend and student of Lowell's in the 1960s. Tillinghast shows how Lowell's gift for the grand gesture was tragically intertwined with the manic-depressive illness that afflicted him throughout his adult life- hence the \"damaged grandeur\" of the title. This book offers a radical re- examination of Lowell's poetic career and argues for the restoration of this complex and troubled poet to a pre-eminent position in American letters.\u003cbr\u003e Richard Tillinghast's books of poetry include \u003ci\u003eOur Flag was Still There, Sewanee in Ruins, The Knife and Other Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSleep Watch\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. He is Professor Emeritus of English, University of Michigan, and is the recipient of a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard W. Tillinghast\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047206570X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472065707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/30\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.26w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/03\/1995 pg. 56","brand":"Richard W. Tillinghast","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988163789055,"sku":"9780472065707","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_217d7a53-04e6-4f74-98bf-2c21ec12287d.jpg?v=1683292986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/robert-lowells-life-and-work-richard-w-tillinghast-9780472065707","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}