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The Mills of the Kavanaughs is the third book of poems written by the American poet Robert Lowell. Like Lowell's previous book, Lord Weary's Castle, the poetry in Kavanaughs was also ornate, formal, dense, and metered.
- Robert Lowell
- 1951
Kavanaughs are a Catholic family that came to Maine in the 17th Cen-tury. Their house is called KAVANAUGH; it is on a hill, and at its foot there is a mill pond, and by it a marble statue of Persephone, the Goddess who became a queen by becoming the queen of the dead. Anne comes of a poor family. She was adopted by the Kavanaughs nany years before
A Catholic Vision of America. The Mills of the Kavanaughs. by Robert Lowell. Harcourt, Brace. 55 pp. $2.50. The tribe of visionary-poets, especially in English, where imagination must often work against a prudential language, is small. America offers four such poets in Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, and Crane; and of these, only Whitman and Crane ...
The Mills of the Kavanaughs by Robert Lowell. Publication date 1946 Publisher New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary ...
Each of the poems in 'The Mills of the Kavanaughs' are elaborate, well-wrought dramatic monologues. It's a good collection and if you're a Robert Lowell fan, it's worth reading. To be honest, I liked these poems more than the ones in his Pulitzer Prize winner 'Lord Weary's Castle'.
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A combined edition of the poet's early work, including Lord Weary's Castle, a collection of forty-two short poems, which won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, and The Mills of the Kavanaughs, a narrative poem of six hundred lines, and five other long poems.
The Mills of The Kavanaughs Lord Weary's Castle , Robert Lowell 's second book of poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 when Lowell was only thirty.
