Lord Weary's Castle

Name: Lord Weary's Castle
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SKU: LSBOKRL212
Price: 250.0 USD
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Lowell, Robert

250 USD

Date

1946

Category

Poetry

Description

Robert Lowell. Lord Weary's Castle. 1946.

Robert Lowell's celebrated second collection, winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. A defining work of postwar American literature, Lord Weary's Castle established Lowell as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets through its formal mastery, historical imagination, and emotional intensity.

Condition: Very good.

Excerpt

There once the penitents took off their shoes And then walked barefoot the remaining mile: Like cows to the old shrine, until you lose Track of your dragging pain.