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Collected Prose, by Robert Lowell (Farrar, 377 pp., $25)

Robert Lowell had all the qualities of a major critic: intelligence, learning, judgment, style, taste, and wit. His Collected Prose, full of inspired insights, reveals an electric and energetic mind. This book confirms Lowell, along with the frenetically erudite John Berryman and the savagely brilliant Randall Jarrell, as the leading poet-critic of the postwar generation.

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Jeffrey Meyers

Mr. Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of John Huston: Courage and Art.

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Collected Prose, by Robert Lowell (Farrar, 377 pp., $25)

Robert Lowell had all the qualities of a major critic: intelligence, learning, judgment, style, taste, and wit. His Collected Prose, full of inspired insights, reveals an electric and energetic mind. This book confirms Lowell, along with the frenetically erudite John Berryman and the savagely brilliant Randall Jarrell, as the leading poet-critic of the postwar generation.