Episode 53: Paul Mariani on Robert Lowell
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In this episode, I speak with the poet, critic, and biographer Paul Mariani, professor emeritus at Boston College. We discuss his new book, All that Will be New and his biography of Robert Lowell, The Lost Puritan. We discuss Lowell\'s life, poetry, and his struggle with the permanent things: religion, marriage, art, family.\\xa0 Given the influence of Hopkins on his early poems, I think this episode pairs well with episode 38 with Nick Ripatrazone.
As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation.
Paul Mariani is the University Professor of English emeritus at Boston College. He is the author of twenty books, including biographies of William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Hart Crane, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Wallace Stevens. He has published nine volumes of poetry: All That Will New, Ordinary Time, Epitaphs for the Journey,\\xa0Deaths & Transfigurations,\\xa0The Great Wheel,\\xa0Salvage Operations: New & Selected Poems,\\xa0Prime Mover,\\xa0Crossing Cocytus, and\\xa0Timing Devices. He is also the author of the spiritual memoir, Thirty Days: On Retreat with the Exercises of St. Ignatius and The Mystery of It All: The Vocation of Poetry in the Twilight of Modernity. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim and the NEA and NEH. In September 2019, he was awarded the inaugural Flannery O\\u2019Connor Lifetime Achievement Award from the Catholic Imagination Conference at Loyola University, Chicago.
Sacred and Profane Love\\xa0is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.