num_pages: 90
description: Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. Helen Vendler called Life Studies Lowell's "most original book." It won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1960.
language: English
title: Life studies
titlecomplete: Life studies
genres: American, Classics, School, Poetry, The United States Of America, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 419
awards: awardedAt: -315590400000
name: National Book Award
category: Poetry
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Cedahy