Biography EssayMalcolm Lowry's reputation rests largely on a single novel, Under the Volcano (1947), the semiautobiographical account of an expatriate Englishman's disintegration through despair and ...
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Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957) is best known for his one and only masterpiece, an autobiographical novel entitled Under the Volcano. It weaves together themes of alienation, love, political idealism, and m...
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Malcolm Lowry's reputation rests largely on a single novel, Under the Volcano (1947), the semi-autobiographical account of an expatriate Englishman's disintegration through despair and dipsomania in M...
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In the following excerpted review, Bradbury contrasts the main themes of Hear Us O Lord and Lowry's novel Under the Volcano.
Malcolm Lowry has been variously claimed as an English and an Ame...
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In the following essay, Linguanti views Lowry's short story collection Hear Us O Lord as a. macrotext, or as a work of "integrated unity."
Like most devoted readers of Lowry I ...
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In the following essay, Edmonds provides a thematic and stylistic analysis of Lowry's short fiction.
To a friend and fellow writer James Stern, Malcolm Lowry once wrote, "It is possib...
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In the following excerpt, Epstein explores autobiographical aspects of Lowry's short fiction.
Malcolm Lowry was almost entirely an autobiographical writer. His stories, novels, and poems can...
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In the following essay, Woodcock discusses the influence of life in Canada on "The Bravest Boat, " "Gin and Goldenrod, " and "The Forest Path to the Spring."
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In the following excerpt, Costa examines thematic aspects of the three Canadian stories in Hear Us O Lord, and notes similarities between "The Forest Path into the Spring" and Henry Davi...
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In the following essay, Bareham views the stories in Hear Us O Lord as interconnected.
Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place stands at a crossroads in Lowry's output. From this point...
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In the following essay, Rankin explores the comic aspects of Lowry's short story "Elephant and Colosseum."
Those who know Malcolm Lowry only through Under the Volcano are often...
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In the following essay, Bareham discusses the defining characteristics of Lowry's short fiction.
'Short fiction was never his forte,' says Douglas Day [in Malcoln Lowry: A Biog...
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In the following essay, Head explores the motif of expanding circles in the short stories of Hear Us O Lord, maintaining that it affects Lowry's use of language and functions to link the storie...
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Malcolm Lowry
(Clarence) Malcolm Lowry
Critical Review by Malcolm Bradbury
