Cover of Life Studies

Life Studies

by Robert Lowell · 1959

+ Want to read

Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. Helen Vendler called Life Studies Lowell's "most original book." It won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1960.

Setting
20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 90 pages
Form
poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

BuyAmazonGoogle Books

BorrowOpen LibraryA library near you

MoreCompare pricesHardcover

Liked Life Studies? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Life Studies. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. The Game of Boxes: Poems Catherine Barnett · 2012 Shares poetry, poetry poetics, poems
  2. Questions of Travel Elizabeth Bishop · 1965 Shares poetry, american
  3. In the Pines Alice Notley · 2007 Shares poetry, poetry poetics, poems
  4. Museum of Accidents Rachel Zucker · 2009 Shares poetry, poems
See more recommendations →

“People who read Life Studies tend to reach for these next.”

  1. The End of the West Michael Dickman · 2009
  2. The Cow Ariana Reines · 2006
  3. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow Ted Hughes · 1970
  4. The Continuous Life Mark Strand · 1990

“If you want more of the same, start with these.”

  1. Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems William Carlos Williams · 1962
  2. Selected Poems Randall Jarrell · 1972
  3. An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell Deborah Levy · 1990
  4. The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 · 1960

“If it was the poetry that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Father Sharon Olds · 1992
  2. The Collected Poems Stanley Kunitz · 2000
  3. Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty Tony Hoagland · 2010
  4. Collected Poems James Merrill · 2001

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. North and South Elizabeth Bishop · 1946
  2. The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems Michael Ondaatje · 1989
  3. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries Helen Vendler · 2010
  4. The Widening Spell of the Leaves Larry Levis · 1991

Report a problem