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Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell's life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives. Individual chapters address his relation to the South, his religious evolution, aspects of his marriages and private life, his bipolar disorder seen through new theories of mental illness, his work as a letter writer and a connoisseur of art and photography. The book also introduces new parameters for a contemporary study of Lowell, commenting on current debates about race and privilege, feminism, ecoconsciousness, his engagement with the natural environment as well as his friendships with Randall Jarrell and Robert Penn Warren.

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Thomas Austenfeld is Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. He is the author of American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman (2001), the editor of Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century (2008), of Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver (2010), of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts (2015), and of Robert Lowell in a New Century (2019). Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor of English and the director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres and Robert Frost's Political Body. He has published in such journals as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Partial Answers, and College Literature. Most recently, he has coedited, with Steven G. Axelrod, Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2022).

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