Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Many critics consider it Lowell's most important book and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books.
Some of the poems were written after Lowell's stay in the McLean Hospital in Belmont, Boston in early 1958. The manuscript was completed in the summer of 1958, and sent to Farrar, Straus & Cudahy in October.
Life Studies was first published in London by Fabe...
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Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Many critics consider it Lowell's most important book and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books.
Some of the poems were written after Lowell's stay in the McLean Hospital in Belmont, Boston in early 1958. The manuscript was completed in the summer of 1958, and sent to Farrar, Straus & Cudahy in October.
Life Studies was first published in London by Faber & Faber. This was to allow for it to be entered for selection by the Poetry Book Society, one condition being that the first edition must be British. Because of the rush to release the book in Britain, the British first edition does not include the "91 Revere Street" section. The first American edition was published in 1959 by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York, and won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1960. Lowell's previous books were Land of Unlikeness, Lord Weary's Castle, and The Mills of The Kavanaughs.
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