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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character Hardback - 2017

by Jamison, Kay Redfield

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  • Title Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  • Author Jamison, Kay Redfield
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Knopf, New York
  • Publication date 2017-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0307700275-11-6-29
  • ISBN 9780307700278 / 0307700275
  • Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.6 x 1.8 in (23.37 x 16.76 x 4.57 cm)
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Creative ability, Poets, American - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2016028281
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

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 and life 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, creating a language for madness that was new and arresting. As Dr. Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, she illuminates not only the relationships among mania, depression, and creativity but also the details of Lowell's treatment and how illness and treatment influenced the great work that he produced (and often became its subject). Lowell's New England roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent writers, friendships with other poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, his many hospitalizations, his vivid presence as both a teacher and a maker of poems--Jamison gives us the poet's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of his intense discipline, courage, and commitment to his art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical records, as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and she is the first biographer to have spoken with his daughter, Harriet Lowell. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison delivers a bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition.

About the author

KAY REDFIELD JAMISON is the Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, and Touched with Fire, and is coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. Dr. Jamison is a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Rhoda and Barnard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship.

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