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Within this magisterial research of the partnership between disorder and fine art, the best-selling writer of An Unquiet Brain, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an completely fresh understanding to the task and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose strong, complex, and personal verse kept a lasting make on the British language and altered the public discourse about private things. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell put his manic-depressive disorder (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, building a vocabulary for madness that was new and arresting. As Dr. Jamison brings her knowledge in disposition disorders to keep on Lowell's storyline, she illuminates not only the interactions among mania, depression, and creative imagination but also the details of Lowell's treatment and how disorder and treatment inspired the fantastic work that he produced (and frequently became its subject). Lowell's New Great britain roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent authors, friendships with other poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, many hospitalizations, brilliant presence as both a instructor and a machine of poems - Jamison offers us the poet's life via a lens that centers our knowledge of his intense self-discipline, courage, and dedication to his fine art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical data as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and she actually is the first biographer to own spoken along with his girl, Harriet Lowell. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison offers a strong, sympathetic account of any poet who was - both despite and because of mental disorder - a separate, original observer of the individuals condition.
