Instruct: Classify the given review into positive or negative sentiment.
Query: Robert Lowell was a transgressive artist???

OK, the foreword almost made me throw away the book right there. Its first sentence reads `Robert Lowell was a transgressive artist.'This sounds like a parody of a 1980ies English lit major thesis - mercifully you can skip the foreword as it doesn't add anything at all. It's short though so skipping is easily done.The selection itself is generous and one gets a good idea of Lowell's breadth of writing styles. As another reviewer has noted this edition is probably all you need.