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'Poetry as Confession' was an influential 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. This led to an entire movement of 20th Century poetry being called 'Confessional poetry'. The review was published in ''The Nation'' on 19 September 1959, and was later collected in Rosenthal's book of selected essays and reviews, ''Our Life In Poetry'' (1991).〔Rosenthal, ''Our Life in Poetry'' pages 109 – 112〕 Some material from the essay was used in an essay Rosenthal published the following year in his book ''The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction''.〔Rosenthal, M. L., ''The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction'' New York: Oxford University Press, 1960 ISBN 0-19-500718-2〕 The review opens with a reference to Emily Dickinson and noting the new trend towards confession in poetry: Rosenthal proceeds to compare the current day approach with that of the poets of the Romantic period such as John Keats. The Romantics, he asserts, found "cosmic equations and symbols". Keats transcended his "personal complaint", and lost it in the "music of universal folornness". Rosenthal introduces the adjective "confessional" when hew moves on to Walt Whitman and his Calamus poems: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound are brought up, in the context of the influence of the Symbolists, and how they take us to the "forbidden realm" although "a certain indirection masks the poet's actual face and psyche". But, Rosenthal continues, ==See also== * 1959 in poetry 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Poetry as Confession」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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