Download or read book Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire written by Kay R. Jamison and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work"--