Vol. 27 No. 1 1960 - page 162

The English-speaking
world hails
a magnificent poet
Life
Studies
New poems and
an autobiographical
fragment
by
Robert
Lowell
Stephen Spender:
"Taking pleasure in the workman–
ship, the idiosyncrasies, the solidity
of' anecdote tacked onto anecdote,
one confidently awaits the moment
of revelation . _ . the writing is so
effective that it is its own reward
_. _Bundles of observation often as
brazen as - this is what I have been
looking for! - Tolstoy! Does not
Lowell often seem to be writing the
poems of Pierre Bezukov?"
THE NEW REPUBLIC
Horace Gregory :
"The value of Lowell's poetry lies
in its power to evoke immediate
things, sights, sounds, feelings - all
unglossed - from which an essen–
tial poetic meaning emerges. That
is why his portraits are memorable
... Lowell has given new life to a
New England tradition in American.
poetry. Unquestionably, he is here
to stay."
THE COMMONWEAL
Chad Walsh :
"Many of these poems are surely
destined to endure with the finest
poetry of our times."
NEW YORK HERALD TRmUNE
Dudley Fitts:
"From the technical point of view,
there is only one possible judg.
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