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Article: Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell. (book reviews)
- Article from:
- The Literary Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Fairleigh Dickinson University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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