Thomas Austenfeld is Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. He is the author of American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman (2001), the editor of Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century (2008), of Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver (2010), of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts (2015), and of Robert Lowell in a New Century (2019). Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor of English and the director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres and Robert Frost's Political Body. He has published in such journals as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Partial Answers, and College Literature. Most recently, he has coedited, with Steven G. Axelrod, Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2022).

'On the whole Robert Lowell in Context offers a beneficial balance of informed distinction and reassessment. These essays refuse to flatten their subject or dismiss him as an outmoded ivory avatar, while simultaneously highlighting the ways in which precisely this aspect - his centrality and access to the American world of arts and culture - gave him a rich, evolving means of commentating on the state of the republic in his lifetime.' Robert Lowell, The Times Literary Supplement

• Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction. Robert Lowell in Context; Part I. Places: 1. Boston Grzegorz Kosc; 2. The American south Joseph Kuhn; 3. New York Jeffrey Gray; 4. England and Ireland Tony Roberts; Part II. American Politics, American Wars: 5. War Walt Hunter; 6. US presidency Alex Runchman; 7. Ecoconsciousness Adam Beardsworth; Part III. Some Literary Models: 8. Classics John Talbot; 9. Melville Stephen Matterson; 10. Plaints Meg Tyler; Part IV. Contemporaries: Modernists and Beyond: 11. T. S. Eliot Stephen Regan; 12. Ezra pound Richard Parker; 13. John Berryman Philip Coleman; 14. Warren and Jarrell Joan Romano Shifflett; 15. Elizabeth Bishop Thomas Travisano; Part V. Life, Illness, and the Arts: 16. Religion Thomas Austenfeld; 17. Marriage Lucy Collins; 18. Desensationalizing madness Astrid Franke; 19. Photography Anita Helle; 20. Painting Diederik Oostdijk; Part VI. Reputation and New Contexts: 21. Letters Calista McRae; 22. Whiteness Nikki Skillman; 23. Appropriation Hannah Baker Saltmarsh; 24. 'Raw' poets Andrew Epstein; 25. Lowell's influence Steven Gould Axelrod; 26. Language and post-language poets Kacper Bartczak; Further reading; Index.