Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poetâs early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Wearyâs Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowellâs early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowellâs early poetry is often overshadowed by the emergence of his confessional poetry (that develops in Life Studies; however, instead of Lowellâs early poetry being eclipsed by Life Studies, a remembrance of his early poetry is necessary as a way of understanding Lowellâs evolution as a poet. The early poetry provides readers and scholars of Lowell with a Puritan paradigm and the ethos of an American narrative that Lowell never fully abandons but only perpetually deconstructs.
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