Rosenthal opened with a passing reference to Emily Dickinson’s comment that poetry, once it becomes pub- lic and is read by an audience, becomes “the auction of the mind.” There is always the chance a reader will misperceive a poet’s intentions, and consequently the poet will be transformed into distortion.

Confessional poetry or "Confessionalism" is a style of poetry that emerged in the United States during the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Too, the nod to Dickinson acknowledged the cornerstone of the autobiographical element in American poetry. The place of the self is sacred for its mystery and out of that mystery it confesses by making known its existence. But, Rosenthal continues. M.L.

The Impersonality of the Poet in T.S.

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xœ+äå*£@02Œ@ÐÈÐD똛Yš($çòré{æ&¦§(¸ä+@4 zSP The Spiritual Quarrel of T.S. 'Poetry as Confession' was an influential article written by M. L. Rosenthal, reviewing the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell. The use of poetry for the most naked kind of confession grows apace in our day.". Rosenthal originally used the term "confessional," in a 1959 review of Lowell's Life Studies entitled 'Poetry as Confession', Rosenthal mentions earlier tendencies towards the confessional but notes how there was typically a 'mask' which hid the poet's 'actual face'.

[But] To work explicitly with the self requires extraordinary judgement, detachment and control.” (3) These poets aren’t simply wailing into the void.

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The review opens with a reference to Emily Dickinson and noting the new trend towards confession in poetry: Emily Dickinson once called publication "the auction of the mind." Poetry is a very old medium for expressing emotions in a rhythmic way. stream Flights of the Mind and the Limits of Empathy 135, https://doi.org/10.3726/978-1-4539-0836-5, Peter Lang International Academic Publishers. Eliot and the Reclaiming of the Personality of the Poet in Lowell’s Life Studies 114, 7. 9 0 obj Lowell removes the mask. c h a p t e r t w o Poetry as Confession In a short review of Robert Lowell’s Life Studies, “Poetry as Confession,” written for the Nation in 1959, the literary critic M.L. <> 5 0 obj

Confessional poetry is one of the modern fields of poetry.

The Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics of Walter Pater and Lowell’s “91 Revere Street” 126, 8.

"Lowell removes the mask.

'Poetry as Confession' was an influential article written by M. L. Rosenthal, reviewing the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell. It is doubtful that Rosenthal could have foreseen just how successful his coinage of the term “confessional poetry” would later prove to be, but the effect was in its own way earth shattering. Robert Lowell seems to regard it more as soul's therapy. endobj Confessional poetry as a genre was first characterized by the critic M. L. Rosenthal in 1959. Robert Lowell, the Puritan Past, and a World of Evil 1, 3.
Different eras of literature have come up with different kinds of definition and patterns of poetry.

Poet and novelist Lavinia Greenlaw says, “No one wants to be called a confessional poet…It suggests all you do is blurt your feelings. 8 0 obj The review is credited with being the first application of the term of confession to an approach to the writing of poetry.

endobj Keats transcended his "personal complaint", and lost it in the "music of universal folornness".

<> His speaker is unequivocally himself, and it is hard not to think of Life Studies as a series of personal confidences, rather shameful, that one is honor-bound not to reveal. The poetry is highly subjective, written with frankness and lack of re­straint, and focuses on the ugliness of life.

stream Currency depends on your shipping address. endstream T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound are brought up, in the context of the influence of the Symbolists, and how they take us to the "forbidden realm" although "a certain indirection masks the poet's actual face and psyche".

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[1] Some material from the essay was used in an essay Rosenthal published the following year in his book The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction.[2]. Eliot and Lowell 40, 4.


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