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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and
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Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character Trade paperback - 2018

by Jamison, Kay Redfield

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Vintage, 2018. Trade paperback. Good. Ex-library.. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 560 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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  • Title Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
  • Author Jamison, Kay Redfield
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Good. Ex-library.
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage
  • Publication date 2018
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris.0000951
  • ISBN 9780307744616 / 0307744612
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Creative ability, Poets, American - 20th century
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
  • Quantity available 1

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Reader reviews for Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

From the publisher

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters.

In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell's illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition.

About the author

Kay Redfield Jamison is the Dalio Family Professor in Mood Disorders and a professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, as well as an honorary professor of English at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She is the author of the national best sellers An Unquiet Mind, Night Falls Fast, and Touched with Fire, and is the coauthor of the standard medical text on bipolar disorder, Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. Dr. Jamison is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and is a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine, and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. She is married to Thomas Traill, a cardiologist at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
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