Some Names for Robert Lowell
Karl Miller, 19 May 1983
Robert Lowell: A Biography
by Ian Hamilton.
Faber, 527 pp., £12.50, May 1983,0 571 13045 3 Show More
by Ian Hamilton.
Faber, 527 pp., £12.50, May 1983,
“... about this undoubtedly American poet. He is the justified sinner whom we meet in the fiction of James Hogg. And he is the superman, the Stavrogin, whom we meet in the fiction of Dostoevsky: the antinomian hero bent both on power and mischief and on the blessedness of the meek, so that he’s Prince Myshkin too, and it’s ... ”