Close Reading: Lowell Studies

In the concluding episode of their acclaimed series, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford confront Robert Lowell: the Boston Brahmin for whom poetry trumped every other consideration, and whose Cold War ‘confessionalism’ came to exemplify a generation of Americans’ collective trauma; the poet who changed everything, but whose star has somehow fallen. But, Perry and Ford conclude, it will – like this podcast, we hope – rise again. Articles mentioned in this episode: Karl Miller on some names for Robert Lowell (1983): https://lrb.me/millerlowellpod John Bayley on Lowellship (1987): https://lrb.me/bayleylowellpod Michael Hofmann: Read Robert Lowell! (2003): https://lrb.me/hofmannlowellpod Frank Kermode on Lowell's letters (2005): https://lrb.me/kermodelowellpod Sign up to the LRB newsletter: https://lrb.me/acast For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy