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en-wikipedia-org-574		Life Studies - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	1518	152	72	This first section can be interpreted as a transition section, signaling Lowell's move away from Catholicism, as evidenced by the book's first poem, "Beyond the Alps," as well as a move away from the traditional, dense, more impersonal style of poetry that characterized Lowell's writing while he was still a practicing Catholic and closely associated with New Critical poets like Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. For this reason, Life Studies is viewed as one of the first confessional books of poetry, although some poets and poetry critics such as Adam Kirsch[6] and Frank Bidart[7] question the accuracy of the confessional label. The website for the Academy for American Poets states that, "Lowell's work in Life Studies had an especially profound impact that is discernible not only in the poetry of his direct contemporaries, such as Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, but also in the treatment of biographical detail by countless poets who followed."[10] John Thompson in The Kenyon Review supports this contention stating that, "For these poems, the question of propriety no longer exists.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-574.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-574.txt