Collected Poems

Edmund Wilson wrote that Robert Lowell was "the only recent American poet -if you don´t count Eliot- who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition". Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have have compiled the definitive editions of Lowell´s work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness, onwards. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, as well as a selection of his drafts.