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Course Description

Instructor: Lindsay Atnip

Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, published in 1959, marked the beginning of a new era not only for Lowell but for poetry in general—after the highly impersonal, aggressively “difficult” poetry of modernists like T.S. Eliot (and Lowell’s own early work), Lowell sought a way to express and grapple with the personal, in the process inventing a new genre perhaps misleadingly baptized “confessional poetry.”

We will read selections from Life Studies including one of Lowell’s most beloved poems, “Skunk Hour,” considering the work as a mode of coming to terms with the tensions and crises of one’s own life and historical situation by finding the appropriate poetic form.

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