Robert Lowell, Setting The River On Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison
A vivid, deeply researched biography of an influential American poet that traces his private struggles and public successes, showing how family history, volatile relationships, and recurrent episodes of mental illness shaped his fiercely autobiographical verse. Drawing on letters, interviews, and clinical insight, it chronicles his rise in midcentury literary circles, his tumultuous marriages and friendships, hospitalizations and treatments, and the ethical and artistic controversies stirred by his confessional style. The portrait balances admiration for his genius with frank attention to the costs of his instability, illuminating the fraught relationship between creativity and psychiatric disorder.
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- 2005
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- American
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- English
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