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Author:

Jamison, Kay R., author.

Title:

Robert Lowell, setting the river on fire : a study of genius, mania, and character / Kay Redfield Jamison.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xix, 532 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs ; 25 cm

Subject:

Lowell, Robert,--1917-1977--Mental health.
Lowell, Robert,--1917-1977--Biography.
Manic-depressive persons--United States--Biography.
Poets, American--20th century--Biography.
Genius and mental illness.
Creative ability.
Biographies.

Other Authors:

Traill, Thomas A., author.

Contents:

I. Introduction: Steel and Fire -- II. Origins: The Puritanical Iron Hand of Constraint -- III. Illness: The Kingdom of the Mad -- IV. Character: How Will the Heart Endure? -- V. Illness and Art: Something Altogether Lived -- Mortality: Come; I Bell Thee Home -- Appendix I: Psychiatric Records of Robert Lowell -- Appendix II: Mania and Depression: Diagnosis and Nomenclature -- Appendix III: Medical History of Robert Lowell (by Thomas Traill, FRCP).

ISBN:

0307700275 (hardback)
9780307700278 (hardback)

LCCN:

2016028281

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)