Article: Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell. (book reviews)

Paul Mariani, New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.

PAUL MARIANI'S NEW BIOGRAPHY of Robert Lowell is not without its shortcomings. For one thing, he uses an affected and annoying shift into the present tense during some of Lowell's manic speedups. In another stylistic gamble, he goes in for sentence fragments mistakenly used in an effort to achieve dramatic emphasis. Another problem is his maddening misspelling of Lowell's middle name, using "Trail!" and "Trail" in very nearly equal numbers. (This, of course, is just the sort of thing that copy editors and authors might be expected to miss, yet in the end cannot be excused for missing.) And the last fifty or so pages of the ...

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