Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes, you are right about Robert Lowell - but you would enjoy him - he fought against war (even when it was not fashionable to be so) and for freedom of every stripe through his life, which was full of hospitalization for mental illnesses. His book of poems, Life Studies, is brilliant, and highly recommended: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Lowell His unstable life and resulting poetry actually reminds me of Eliot's lines from one of my favourite poems, The Hollow Men: Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Cheers Jayanand On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:50 AM, George Lottermoser <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2013, at 8:24 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: > >> My two favourites >> US poets of that generation are T.S.Eliot (if you can call him an >> American poet) and Robert Lowell. > > Yes. Well Eliot operated in a whole different and quite new idiom. > Definitely pushing literature forward in time > > I'm all that familiar with Lowell. > Though, as I recall, his subjects tended to be a bit more urban than > Frosts; > and also leaned more toward the modern than the past traditions. > > Regards, > George Lottermoser > george at imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com > http://www.imagist.com/blog > http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information