Books, Arts & Manners: A Winchell on Parnassus

Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle, by Jeffrey Meyers (Arbor House, 224 pp., $17.95)

Page through this book about five poets (Lowell, Berryman, Jarrell, Roethke, Plath) and what you’ll almost never find on exhibition is poetry (you know, lines with uneven right margins: just what justifies their claim on our attention). Swept together by some tidy janitor, Mr. Meyers’s samplings of his subjects’ verse would sit neatly on a single page.

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Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle, by Jeffrey Meyers (Arbor House, 224 pp., $17.95)

Page through this book about five poets (Lowell, Berryman, Jarrell, Roethke, Plath) and what you’ll almost never find on exhibition is poetry (you know, lines with uneven right margins: just what justifies their claim on our attention). Swept together by some tidy janitor, Mr. Meyers’s samplings of his subjects’ verse would sit neatly on a single page.