Louis Simpson:
"Robert Lowell [is] the poet who,
of all American poets now writing,
appears the most clearly and extra–
ordinarily gifted . . .
It
was odd
for a poet to be born into this little
world (of an upper-class Boston
family) - and, indeed, it is won–
derful that the poet is of Lowell's
stature."
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR
F.
W.
Dupee:
"The portraits and memories in
verse are excellent in their com–
mand of a cadenced as opposed to
a metrical medium and they are ex–
ceedingly lively ... The poems add
up to something like the effective-
. ness of
Mauberley,
Pound's se–
quence of scenes and portraits from
London Life. They represent, per–
haps, major poetry pulling in its
horns ... and studying how to
survive."
PARTISAN REVIEW
A. Alvarez:
"Here at last, in all the dreary
welter of 'new' verse, is something
really new .. . It is a magnificent
start to a new phase in his work.
Poetry of this order needs neither
to be justified nor explained; one
should simply be thankful that there
is still someone able to write it."
THE (LONDON) OBSERVER
The English-speaking
world hails a
magnificent poet
Life
Studies
New poems and
an autobiographical
fragment by
Robert
Lowell
~PUblished
by
FARRAR, STRAUS & CUDAHY
$3.50 at all bookstores.
