Essays on ROBERT LOWELL: The Poet and the Tyrant.
A chapter of the book "Shades of Authority: The Poetry of Lowell, Hill & Heaney" is presented. Robert Lowell's work focuses on persons known to be tyrants such as Attila and Hitler. His imaginative engagement with these persons' thoughts and deeds is said to reveal his admiration for them complicate...
| Publicado en: | Shades of Authority: The Poetry of Lowell, Hill & Heaney pp. 29 - 46 |
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Liverpool University Press 2004 Limited
2007
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| Sumario: | A chapter of the book "Shades of Authority: The Poetry of Lowell, Hill & Heaney" is presented. Robert Lowell's work focuses on persons known to be tyrants such as Attila and Hitler. His imaginative engagement with these persons' thoughts and deeds is said to reveal his admiration for them complicated by his sympathy for their self-destructive trend. His attempt to explain tyrant delusions and megalomaniac fantasies is said to be the result of his own susceptibility at times to acute mental disturbance. |
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