Essays about: "Purgation"

Found 1 essay containing the word Purgation.

  1. 1. The Flamekeeper : The Confessional Purgation of the Soul in the Poetry of Robert Lowell

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Ryan Jurison; [2020]
    Keywords : Robert Lowell; American poetry; Catholic Theology; Religious Symbolism; Purgation; Purgatory; Land of Unlikeness; Lord Weary s Castle; The Mills of the Kavanaughs; Life Studies; For the Union Dead;

    Abstract : This essay is a critical textual analysis of the poetry of Robert Lowell with focus on religious symbolism used in his work, and the Catholic theology which informed it. This results in a new, contrasting interpretation to the conventional view that he had abandoned his religious focus by mid-career, while accounting for his own assessment that he had not. READ MORE