Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

Zusatztext 56853631 Informationen zum Autor 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 coauthor of the standard medical text on manic-depressive illness! Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression. Dr. Jamison is a recipient of the Lewis Thomas Prize! the Rhoda and Barnard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from the National Academy of Medicine! and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship. Klappentext 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 Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry! Robert Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain! creating a language for madness that was new and arresting. As Dr. Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story! she illuminates not only the relationships among mania! depression! and creativity but also the details of Lowell's treatment and how illness and treatment influenced the great work that he produced (and often became its subject). Lowell's New England roots! early breakdowns! marriages to three eminent writers! friendships with other poets such as Elizabeth Bishop! his many hospitalizations! his vivid presence as both a teacher and a maker of poems-Jamison gives us the poet's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of his 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 as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems!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 she is the first biographer to have spoken with his daughter! Harriet Lowell. 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. 1 No Tickets for That Altitude The resident doctor said, We are not deep in ideas, imagination or enthusiasm­ how can we help you? I asked, These days of only poems and depression­ what can I do with them? Will they help me to notice what I cannot bear to look at? ­From Notice Darkness honestly lived through is a place of wonder and life, Robert Lowell wrote. So much has come from there. It was October 1957 and he was forty, writing poetry like a house a fire, and taking darkness into new country. It was, he said, the best writing he had done, closer to what I know and oh how welcome after four silent years. The new poems became the heart of Life Studies, perhaps the most influential book of modern verse since T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. The poems, most written at the boil in a few months' time, left their mark: They have made a conquest, wrote a reviewer. They have won?.?.?.??a major expansion of the territory of poetry. In December 1957, after his summer and fall blaze of writing, Lowell was admitted to a mental hospital severely psychotic. It was his fifth psychiatric hospitalization in eight years. He was involuntarily committed to the Boston State Hospital and then transferred to the Massachusetts Mental Health Center (until 1956 known as Boston Psychopathic Hospital). In early 1958 he was transferred yet again, this time to McLean H...

*Named a "Best Book of 2017" by The Boston Globe*

“Groundbreaking . . . A real contribution to the literary history of New England . . . A case study of what a person with an extraordinary will, an unwavering sense of vocation, and a huge talent . . . could and could not do about the fact that the defining feature of his gift was also the source of his suffering.” —Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker

"Remarkable . . . Absorbing . . . Jamison approaches Lowell’s vexed life not only with scholarly authority but also with literary talent and confidence . . . One reads this biography—so full of incident—as one would read a novel, led by each page to the next, fearing and hoping as one follows the excruciating volatility of Lowell’s life and the unpredictable evolution of his art.” —Helen Vendler, The New York Review of Books
 
“Impassioned . . . A remarkably poignant, in-depth . . . look at the making of art.” —Daphne Merkin. The Wall Street Journal

“Professor Jamison sets out to recuperate the reputation of the poet, and of the man, an aim in which she succeeds triumphantly. . . . [She is] a writer of rare elegance, distinction and, above all, passion. Her introduction and the closing chapters are dazzling and deeply moving, and would have been highly appreciated by her subject, himself a fine prose stylist.” —John Banville, The Irish Times

“Jamison, who has written powerfully about her own bipolar disorder, argues in this gorgeous and unsettling book that the poet should be lauded for heroic attempts to maintain his work and relationships in the face of devastating mental illness.” —Kent Worcester, The Boston Globe

“[A] journey into and alongside the mind and poetry of the American poet Robert Lowell . . . An illuminating and, at times, heartbreaking account . . . Jamison does not dilute art to adorn science or try to bend science to art. Instead, she unites scientific and artistic sensibilities in an ambitious and honest effort to understand human experience.” —Caleb Gardner, The Lancet

“One of the richest portraits ever written of bipolar illness . . . People with mood disorders and those who care about them are likely to experience a healing reconsideration of their own experiences as they read this wonderful book.” —Burns Woodward, MD, Psychiatric Times

“[Jamison] focuses usefully on the part that mania played in Lowell’s life and career, and writes about his poetry with thrilling acumen.” —Meghan O’Rourke, The Atlantic

“A magnificent biography . . . Sympathetic, compassionate and often lyrically stunning . . . My wariness of such psychobiographies is that the subject will be reduced to a case study, all too tidily explained. Jamison, however, preserves the mysteries.” —Sam Coale, The Providence Journal

“Kay Jamison brings together meticulous research into the factual narrative of Lowell’s life, an immensely sophisticated ability to interpret his poetry, and a profound understanding of his mental illness and its effect on everything else about him. Written in prose that is often poetic and always acute, it is a poignant, terrifying, and thrilling examination of the complex relationship between genius and madness. It captures Lowell’s electrifying charm, his persistent elegance of thought, and the consuming chaos of his despair. It is one of the finest biographies I have read.” —Andrew Solomon

“Robert Lowell was a constantly searching, restlessly inventive artist who courageously wrestled with bipolar illness all his life. Kay Jamison’s deeply considered, deeply empathetic reading of Lowell’s life and work gives us a revolutionary, richly nuanced way of understanding both a major writer’s career and the sources and processes o…

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