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Neither staid nor slavishly derivative, the poem promises a responsible engagemen with elegiac history, an engagement which expands in the rest the volume to include what John Crowe Ransom calls the "me physical destiny of men."12 Ransom's God Without Thunder exer a subtle but undeniable influence on Lord Weary 's Castle, as St phen Matterson has explained: In Lord Weary s Castle there is a ...
Lord Weary's Castle conveys Robert Lowell's sense of historical destruction during and immediately after World War ii. Efforts by Lowell to relieve his despair by integrating it with Catholic belief, with Classical themes, with his knowledge of European and American history only succeed in confirming the apocalyptic view.
Lord Weary's Castle (awarded Pulitzer Prize of Poetry in 1947) and The Mills of the Kavanaughs established Robert Lowell's early fame. Literary critics widely praised Lowell for his technical brilliance, metrical complexity, and verbal ambiguity - perhaps explaining why Lowell's work is so often challenging, even obscure.
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Lord Weary's castle, and The mills of the Kavanaughs; two volumes of poems by Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977. Publication date 1961 Publisher New York, Meridian Books
His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, at the age of thirty), were influenced by his conversion from Episcopalianism to Catholicism and explored the dark side of America's Puritan legacy. Under the influence of Allen Tate and the New Critics, he wrote ...
Lord Weary’s Castle is a collection of poems by Robert Lowell, published in 1946. The title poem, “Lord Weary’s Castle,” won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947. The collection is considered a landmark in American poetry, as it marked the emergence of the confessional poetry movement. Lowell’s poems in Lord Weary’s Castle are ...
1 feb 1996 · When Randall Jarrell in 1947 called Robert Lowell's poetry "essentially postor antimodernist," he meant that Lord Weary's Castle, Lowell's second book, summarized and attempted to move beyond the rhetorical and aesthetic achievement of a strain of poetics defined by T. S. Eliot, who was at that time the epitome of modernism for both Lowell and Jarrell; he further noted that Lowell had ...
