Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire
Author: Jamison, Kay Redfield
ISBN: 9780307744616
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Feb 2018
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
From the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind; a study of the poet Robert Lowell, and of the relationship between illness and art.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST .In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison,brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work andlife of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters.
In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell's illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was-both despite and because of mental illness-a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
ISBN: 9780307744616
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 Feb 2018
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback / softback
From the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind; a study of the poet Robert Lowell, and of the relationship between illness and art.
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST .In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison,brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work andlife of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters.
In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell's illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was-both despite and because of mental illness-a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
