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Land of Unlikeness, Robert Lowell 's first book of poetry, was published in 1944 in a limited edition of two hundred and fifty copies by Harry Duncan at the Cummington Press. The poems were all metered, often rhymed, and very much informed by Lowell's recent conversion to Catholicism.
In Robert Lowell, Jr. His first volume of poems, Land of Unlikeness (1944), deals with a world in crisis and the hunger for spiritual security. Lord Weary’s Castle, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, exhibits greater variety and command.
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The title of Land of Unlikeness, as Jerome Mazzaro points out in The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell, is taken from a quotation of Saint Bernard and refers to the human soul’s unlikeness to God and unlikeness to its own past self.
Alan Holder analyzes Lowell's first book of poems, which explores the American past through the lens of New England history and Lowell's ancestry. He examines Lowell's ambivalent and complex attitudes towards the Puritans, the Indians, and the Revolution.
Lowell’s first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944) and Lord Weary’s Castle (Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946), for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 at the age of thirty, were influenced by his conversion from Episcopalianism to Catholicism and explored the dark side of America’s Puritan legacy.
Reindert Falkenburg now offers a detailed analysis of Bosch's eye- and mind boggling play with pictorial traditions. He argues that the painting was created towards the end of the fifteenth century as a conversation piece for an audience of Burgundian nobles.
The right interior panel, with the so-called ‘Tree-man’ in its center, shows the triumph of the evil force that has been corrupting God’s Creation since the beginning of time. According to Falkenburg this panel shows a regio dissimilitudinis, a region of dissemblance, a land of unlikeness.
