Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice

Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice returns to the poets early works, such as Land of Unlikeness and Lord Wearys Castle, in search of a relationship between Lowells early poetry and his turn to a confessional style of writing in the 1950s. Lowells early poetry is often overshadowed by the emergence of his confessional poetry (that develops in Life Studies; however, instead of Lowells early poetry being eclipsed by Life Studies, a remembrance of his early poetry is necessary as a way of understanding Lowells evolution as a poet. The early poetry provides readers and scholars of Lowell with a Puritan paradigm and the ethos of an American narrative that Lowell never fully abandons but only perpetually deconstructs.