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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV ( / ˈloʊəl /; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University and Kenyon College. He is best known for his volume Life Studies (1959), but his true greatness as an American poet lies in the astonishing variety of his work.
Robert Lowell - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. On March 1, 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families.
Mar 13, 2017 · The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell. A new book is the first to bring clinical expertise to the poet’s case. What does it reveal about his work? By Dan Chiasson. March 13, 2017. From his...
Robert Lowell, Jr. (born March 1, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 12, 1977, New York, New York) was an American poet noted for his complex, autobiographical poetry. Lowell grew up in Boston.
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) packed a huge amount into his sixty years: a rollercoaster of triumphs and disasters that informed his writing and pushed back the boundaries of what was deemed suitable subject matter for poetry.
The Robert Lowell poems I selected for New Selected Poems, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this year, emphasize the perishability of life, its twinned quality of fragility and repetition, as framed by the structured evanescence of daily consciousness.
