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Poetry as Confession' was an influential 1959 article written by M. L. Rosenthal, reviewing the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell. The review is credited with being the first application of the term of confession to an approach to the writing of poetry.
In 1959 M. L. Rosenthal first used the term "confessional" in a review of Robert Lowell's Life Studies entitled "Poetry as Confession". [6] Rosenthal differentiated the confessional approach from other modes of lyric poetry by way of its use of confidences that (Rosenthal said) went "beyond customary bounds of reticence or personal embarrassment". [7]
The literary 'confessional' term was first attributed to a form of writing in 1959: by critic M.L. Rosenthal in response to the confessional poet Robert Lowell's seminal anthology Life Studies. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The anthology is widely regarded as a seminal confessional text, in the poet's revelations on his relationship to his parents, marital ...
The W. B. Yeats Society of New York renamed their award for achievement in Yeats studies the M. L. Rosenthal Award after Rosenthal's death. His 1959 essay, Poetry as Confession, is credited with being the first application of the term 'confession' to the writing of poetry and therefore for the naming of the confessional poetry movement. [1] [2]
Literary critic M. L. Rosenthal coins the term "confessional" as used in Confessional poetry in "Poetry as Confession", an article appearing in the September 19 issue of The Nation. Rosenthal's article reviews the poetry collection Life Studies by Robert Lowell.
M. L. Rosenthal wrote a review of Life Studies, entitled "Poetry as Confession" which first applied the term "confessional" to Lowell's approach in Life Studies, and led to the name of the school of Confessional poetry.
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (/ ˈ l oʊ əl /; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower.
Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts "First They Came" (German: Als Sie Kamen lit. ' When They Came ', or Habe Ich Geschwiegen lit. ' I Did Not Speak Out '), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller ...