Robert Lowell

Michael A. Musmanno , a judge at some of the Nuremberg trials, attacked this book in a lead review in the New York Times: he read it as a defence of Eichmann, a whitewash...

Reviewer Andrew O'Hagan , however, applies a withering pen to WC in a tirade about a general style of anthology which is, he says, frivolous or aimed at the lifestyle or selfhelp markets. His complaint...

Though Robert Lowell praised the poems in this volume, its reception marked a downturn in PB 's reception. Some established male poets—Alan Brownjohn , Al Alvarez —blamed her for being too crafted, too careful...

Elizabeth Bishop wrote to Robert Lowell that these poems were good, in spots only, less fully realised than his on a similar subject-matter. I feel I know too much about her . . ....

Early reviews of North & South were not enthusiastic, until the tide was turned following warm praise by Marianne Moore , Randall Jarrell , and then Robert Lowell , who was dismissive of some...

At the Fishhouses brought a letter from Robert Lowell (Cal) saying he was very envious of what might be her best poem yet. He became from now on her strong supporter.

Irish critic Colm Tóibín , who at fourteen used to pretend to be the doomed, charismatic queen, feels that of all the many writers who have treated Mary in fiction, from Burns , Wordsworth ...

At the end of her marriage to Lowell , when her life was already seriously disordered, CB worked prodigiously at her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, and became highly productive.

SH was the pre-eminent Irish poet of his generation, writing in a lucid style which is often dazzling and never obscure. A highly visible international figure in the later twentieth century and beyond, he was...

These pieces cover elders and friends (Larkin , Walcott , Patrick Kavanagh ), poets of Eastern Europe where poetry performs the service of resistance to political oppression (as it might do in Northern Ireland...

Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch

She is said to have taken unusual trouble over her letters to Robert Lowell , which he found odd and observant, poetic but domestic, personal without intrusion.

According to CB 's biographer this book sprang from Haycraft's determination to distract Blackwood from her despair after the death of Robert Lowell .