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Title Robert Lowell : setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character / Kay Redfield Jamison
Imprint New York : Vintage, a division of Random House, 2018
©2017

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Teknik och medicin  616.89 Lowell engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition First Vintage Books edition
Descript 532 pages illustrations, portraits
Note First published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, New York in 2017
Appendix 3 by Thomas A. Traill
Includes bibliographical references (pages [431]-510) and index
The best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind now gives us a groundbreaking life of one of the major American poets of the twentieth century that is at the same time a fascinating study of the relationship between manic-depressive (bipolar) illness, creative genius, and character. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work. His New England roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent writers, friendships with other poets, vivid presence as a teacher and writer refusing to give up in the face of mental illness--Jamison gives us Lowell's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of the poet's intense discipline, courage, and commitment to his art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical records, as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and was the first biographer to speak to his daughter. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison delivers a bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition"--Provided by publisher
Subject Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 -- Mental health
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
1900-1999
Poeter
Amerikanska poeter
Kreativitet
Konstnärligt skapande
Psykisk hälsa
Personer med bipolär sjukdom
Manic-depressive persons -- United States -- Biography
Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
Creative ability.
Genius and mental illness.
Manic-depressive persons.
Mental health.
Poets, American.
United States.
Förenta staterna
Biografi
Biographies.
Classmark 616.89/50092
ISBN/ISSN 9780307744616 paperback
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