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The achievement of Robert Lowell.(Books)(Critical Essay)
Robert Lowell was notably unlucky in Ian Hamilton's major biography written on him in 1983. Hamilton's biography, while impressively comprehensive, presented a damagingly wrong-headed and skewed picture of Lowell the man. The reading public on the whole has accepted Hamilton's portrait of Lowell as authentic, as they did in the case of another damaging biography of a poet, Lawrance Thompson's three-volume book on Robert Frost. As if by compensation, Lower is posthumously blessed in the new Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter. (1) Any "collected works" is a tombstone. (And I say that as someone who likes tombstones.) At almost 1200 pages, this is a ...
- Frank Bidart's poetry: the substance of the invisible.(Essays)(Critical Essay)
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Moldaw, Carol January 1, 2004 700+ words
Read collectively, Frank Bidart's poems show his art as wildly deliberative and deliberatively...in the 1983 interview included in In The Western Night) about Lowell's influence upon him as a young poet, he contrasted the use each...
- Maker and collector: Frank Bidart.
- Magazine article from: American Scholar Hammer, Langdon March 22, 2008 700+ words
Collecting is essential to Frank Bidart's creativity. Like Ezra Pound, Bidart often...Riverside, and attended Harvard, where he met Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop and became Lowell's collaborator and, decades later, his editor...
- Frank Bidart wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry.
- Press release article from: M2 Presswire February 27, 2007 700+ words
...27 February 2007-YALE UNIVERSITY: Frank Bidart wins Bollingen Prize in Poetry(C...A three-judge panel has named Frank Bidart the 2007 winner of Yale University...Committee for 2007 is pleased to honor Frank Bidart, who has already built up a lifetime...
- On Frank Bidart; fastening the voice to the page.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
9780472032006 On Frank Bidart; fastening the voice to the page. Ed. by Liam Rector and Tree Swenson. U. of Michigan Press 2007 216 pages $25.95 Paperback...
- An Interview with Frank Bidart.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Chicago Review Rathmann, Andrew Allen, Danielle September 22, 2001 700+ words
...opinion these days that finds such statements either naive or embarrassing in some way, whereas you are not embarrassed. FRANK BIDART: Unembarrassable! Well-- AR: I don't want to ask you, "Why aren't you an ironic poet?" But I would like to know...
- Frank Bidart with the photographer.
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery Giard, Robert,1939-2002--Photographer January 1, 1934 700+ words
- Robert Lowell. Collected Poems.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Garrett, Daniel September 1, 2004 700+ words
Robert Lowell Collected Poems. Frank Bidart, David Gewanter...recent publication of Lowell's monumental Collected...extensive annotations by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter...Atlantic Monthly, Frank Bidart quoted Lowell as saying, "I don...
- Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Brown, Ashley June 22, 1996 700+ words
...D. Snodgrass, and Frank Bidart. It was an extraordinary...referring to "The Age of Lowell." In 1982 fan Hamilton...more important than Lowell. But in the near future...Collected Poems, edited by Frank Bidart, that will surely renew...public's interest in Lowell's life as well ...
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