Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character

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On this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the most efficient-selling writer of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh viewpoint to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now referred to as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell’s story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell’s illness and remedy influenced his work (and incessantly became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was once—both regardless of and as a result of mental illness—a passionate, original observer of the human condition.

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