ent: they are magnificent. That is
e exact word: it is the Aristo·
lian magnificence made poetry.
o one does it better, no one
riting today."
SATURDAY REVIEW
G.
S. Fraser:
It is years since I have read such
accomplished or such an inter–
sting and touchingly 'human'
olume of verse."
THE NEW STATESMAN
Richard
Eberhart:
e piercingly accurate and orig–
nally particular use of English
mps almost every line with a joy-
us discovery ... There is no doubt–
g the toughness, originality, pre–
. ion, severity and power of this
ork. And also the great com–
passion and honesty of the author
.. His poems create a kind of
IOmber splendor unlike the work of
any
other American poet."
N. Y. TIMES BOOK REVIEW
lizabeth Bishop:
"Somehow or other ... in the
middle of our worst century so far,
we
have produced a magnificent
poet."
Louise Bogan:
"The poems in Robert Lowell's
Life
Studies
gain much of their power
and interest from the fact that they
are almost entirely autobiographi–
cal. Lowell's new book shows him
vigorously taking hold of intract–
able material that lesser talents
would be incapable of confronting,
let alone putting down in words."
THE NEW YORKER
Jacques Barzun:
"He is undoubtedly one of our best
poets ... and doctrinally he is rep–
resentative as one of the most elo–
quent protestants against the terms
of human existence."
THE MID-CENTURY
John Thompson:
"The new poems in Robert Lowell's
Life Studies
are a shock ... For
these poems, the question of pro–
priety no longer exists. They have
made a conquest; what they have
won is a major expansion of the
territory of poetry."
KENYON REVIEW
John Hollander:
"Robert Lowell is probably the
most distinguished American poet
of his generation, and under any
circumstances the appearance of his
first book in eight years would have
to be a considerable event ...
Life
Studies
is unbelievably moving."
POETRY
