Robert Lowell. A Biography.

First UK edition. Royal 8vo. Pp. xiv, 527. 12 b/w pls. Light blue boards, titled in silver to spine. Notes, Index. Jacket illustration by Russell Mills (priced £12.50 net to front flap).

The first extended study of the life and works of Robert Lowell – the two-time Pulitzer prize-winner and foremost American poet of his generation. Making judicious use of letters, manuscripts and interviews freely made available to him by Lowell's friends and heirs, the author illuminates Lowell's troubled marriages and manic-depressive episodes which informed his poetry. "Lowell has been lucky. Ian Hamilton is an elegant, sardonic stylist, and an acute critic of poetry." –A. Alvarez, Observer