A Hammer in His Hands
Frank Kermode: Lowell’s Letters, 22 September 2005
The Letters of Robert Lowell
edited by Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 852 pp., £30, July 2005,0 571 20204 7 Show More
edited by Saskia Hamilton.
Faber, 852 pp., £30, July 2005,
“... Lowell was 19, is to Ezra Pound. He describes himself as eccentric, subject to violent passions, keen to learn to be a poet – to ‘work under you and forge my way into reality’. Pound replied, and Lowell soon wrote again, reaffirming his intention to study with the poet, on whom depended such hope as we moderns have of rediscovering the great art of ... ”