{"product_id":"life-studies-and-for-the-union-dead-9780374530969","title":"Life Studies and for the Union Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and \u003ci\u003eLife Studies and For the Union Dead \u003c\/i\u003estand as among his most important volumes. In \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of \u003ci\u003eFor the Union Dead \u003c\/i\u003econcerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lowell\u003c\/b\u003e (1917-1977) was the author of a dozen volumes of poetry, for which he twice received the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51690757816594,"sku":"9780374530969","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_aa12e244-7012-472b-9f0c-757286979152.jpg?v=1761746617","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/life-studies-and-for-the-union-dead-9780374530969","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}