This is the first collection of Robert Lowell's poetry which reveals a writer of unmistakeable brilliance who has a profound insight into the human condition.

¯ 作者简介 罗伯特·洛威尔 （Robert Lowell，1917—1977） 美国著名诗人、散文家、翻译家，自白派诗歌的创始人和代表，美国第六任桂冠诗人。1917年生于波士顿，1935年入哈佛大学，1937年转入肯庸学院，求学于新批评大师兰塞姆，开始致力于“形式工整而内容艰深”的诗歌创作，后转向自由诗体。代表作有诗集《威利爵爷的城堡》《生活研究》《海豚》等，文集《臭鼬的时光：罗伯特·洛威尔文集》等。获美国国家图书奖、普利策奖、美国国家书评人协会奖等多种文学大奖。影响了沃尔科特、希尼、米沃什、布罗茨基等诺贝尔文学奖得主，以及毕肖普、普拉斯、安妮·塞克斯顿、默温等在内的多位同代及后辈诗人。被誉为“他那一代z 好的美国诗人”“时代的诗人历史学家”。 ¯ 译者简介 程佳 暨南大学外国语学院教师、英国班戈大学R.S.托马斯研究中心访问学者，主要译著有“洛威...(展开全部)

In this book, novelist Colm Tóibín offers a deeply personal introduction to the work and life of one of his most important literary influences—the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. Ranging across her poetry, prose, letters, and biography, Tóibín creates a vivid picture of Bishop while also revealing how her work has helped shape his sensibility as a novelist and how her experienc...(展开全部)

The first-ever collection of essays from across Elizabeth Hardwick's illustrious writing career, including works not seen in print for decades. Elizabeth Hardwick wrote during the golden age of the American literary essay. For Hardwick, the essay was an imaginative endeavor, a serious form, criticism worthy of the literature in question. In the essays collected here she covers ...(展开全部)

Elizabeth Bishop dedicated her poetry to telling 'what really happened'. Yet what really happened in the life on one of the twentieth century's finest and most beloved American poets has eluded readers for years. In this first full biography, Brett Miller pieces together the compelling and painful story of Bishop's life and traces the writing of her brilliantly crafted poems.

Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert easily stands beside Nobel Prize laureates Milosz and Szymborska as part of a remarkable literary tradition. Though Herbert is very much an Eastern European writer, the urgency, vitality, and relevance of his work extend far beyond the borders of his particular region and his particular time. His fascination with other subjects—from pai...(展开全部)