Robert Lowell, Life Studies, and the Father Poetry of Michael Hofmann Symbiosis 5.2 173-89

£6.99

Author: Christopher Pugh
21 pages

This micro-ebook, "Robert Lowell, ‘Life Studies’, and the Father Poetry of Michael Hofmann" by Christopher Pugh, offers an in-depth examination of the influence of Robert Lowell's seminal work "Life Studies" on the poetry of Michael Hofmann. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the themes of fatherhood, identity, and poetic legacy, analyzing how Hofmann's poetry reflects and diverges from Lowell's groundbreaking confessional style. Pugh provides a comprehensive critique that is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary poetry and literary criticism.

Purchase

Author: Christopher Pugh
21 pages

This micro-ebook, "Robert Lowell, ‘Life Studies’, and the Father Poetry of Michael Hofmann" by Christopher Pugh, offers an in-depth examination of the influence of Robert Lowell's seminal work "Life Studies" on the poetry of Michael Hofmann. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the themes of fatherhood, identity, and poetic legacy, analyzing how Hofmann's poetry reflects and diverges from Lowell's groundbreaking confessional style. Pugh provides a comprehensive critique that is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary poetry and literary criticism.

Author: Christopher Pugh
21 pages

This micro-ebook, "Robert Lowell, ‘Life Studies’, and the Father Poetry of Michael Hofmann" by Christopher Pugh, offers an in-depth examination of the influence of Robert Lowell's seminal work "Life Studies" on the poetry of Michael Hofmann. Originally published in Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, this essay explores the themes of fatherhood, identity, and poetic legacy, analyzing how Hofmann's poetry reflects and diverges from Lowell's groundbreaking confessional style. Pugh provides a comprehensive critique that is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary poetry and literary criticism.

Secured by PayPal
Essay Excerpt

"Perhaps coincidentally, Stanley Kunitz, also in 1987, pre-empted Morrison when he noted the development of ‘the father-and-son poem, as written from the perspective of the son’. Although concentrating exclusively on American poetry, Kunitz accords with Morrison about the unprecedented rise in the genre from the mid-century but, despite writing after the publication of major British father poem sequences from Tony Harrison, Hugo Williams and Michael Hofmann, claims the genre for America: Isolated examples may be found elsewhere in contemporary literature (witness Dylan Thomas’s eloquent villanelle), but the unique proliferation of the theme in our own country suggests that it is an authentic cultural manifestation"​​.

Myth and Public Mourning: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters Symbiosis 14.1
Myth and Public Mourning: Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters Symbiosis 14.1
£6.99
When Arthur met Anna: Arthur Conan Doyle and Anna Katharine Green
When Arthur met Anna: Arthur Conan Doyle and Anna Katharine Green
£6.99
Henry James's "crushing mission": utopianism on Manhattan Island
Henry James's "crushing mission": utopianism on Manhattan Island
£6.99
The Early American Reception of Izaak Walton's 'The Compleat Angler'
The Early American Reception of Izaak Walton's 'The Compleat Angler'
£6.99
‘This Excellent and Spiritual Traffick’: Producing and Promoting Indian Souls in Seventeenth-Century New England
‘This Excellent and Spiritual Traffick’: Producing and Promoting Indian Souls in Seventeenth-Century New England
£6.99

Produced by Academics

Serving Academics

Fullyfuelled-payments-logo.png
PayPal Logo

Partners

POD (Print On Demand)
Technology Partners

*Google Play and the Google Play logo are trademarks of Google LLC.

Humanities-ebooks LLP Logo.png
Humanities E-Books LLP

 ©2025 Copyright Humanities Ebooks LLP. All Rights Reserved.
124 City Rd, London EC1V 2NX
Partnership No. OC324877
Registered in England and Wales