The Regenerate Lyric
Subtitle: Theology and Innovation in American Poetry (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 2, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780521107310
Subjects: Literature & Fiction -- History & Criticism -- Criticism & Theory; Literature & Fiction -- Poetry -- Criticism; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- Classics; Literature & Fiction -- World Literature -- United States -- History & Criticism; Reference -- Writing
First sentence: Near the end of Robert Lowell's last published volume, Day by Day, comes a poem, "Shifting Colors," that connects the late Lowell with the early Lowell, and indeed the most contemporary and worldly of American poetries with the earliest and most pious.