Robert Lowell's Shifting ColorsIn the two decades that have passed since Robert Lowells death, Robert Lowells Shifting Colors is the first critical survey of the poet's aesthetic efforts to make personal vision and public exhortation cohere and thus combine poetic genres that have been historically discrete. Rather than consider Lowell primarily as either a religious, political, or autobiographical poet, William Doreski proposes that Lowells primary poetic impulse was to shape