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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Friday: flora's freezing
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 11:12:19 +0530
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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
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> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
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