L. Rosenthal wrote a review of "Life Studies", entitled "Poetry as Confession" which first applied the term "confessional" to Lowell's approach in "Life Studies", and led to the name of the school of Confessional poetry.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 and Frank Bidart question the accuracy of the confessional label.