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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.
- Eugenio Montale
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- Homer
Not much is known about Homer, or if he even existed, but he...
- From The Archive: Robert Lowell
The rest of the poems Lowell printed in Poetry sketch out...
- Robert Lowell's Lightness
My father's first full year of captivity was 1943. In this,...
- To Frank Parker
To Frank Parker - Robert Lowell | The Poetry Foundation
- The Whistling Arrow Flies
The Whistling Arrow Flies - Robert Lowell | The Poetry...
- Eugenio Montale
Life Studies (1959) breaks into the light of common day, and it is by all odds a change for the good. Certainly, no other book in the last twenty years has had such a pure and profound influence on American poetry; much of the impact has by now been absorbed, but it is still directly, all too directly visible in the work of a good many female ...
Lowell’s is a poetry in the Symbolist tradition; its symbols, whether used to convey religious significance (as in his first two books) or to express psychological realities (as in his...
Jun 20, 2003 · Why Robert Lowell is America’s most important career poet. In his introduction to Robert Lowell’s Collected Poems, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Frank Bidart writes that Lowell...
Robert Lowell’s poetry gives uniquely full expression to the painful experience of living in modern America; he speaks personally of his own experience as son, husband, lover, father, and...
Nov 1, 2017 · Lowell was the first poet to be called “confessional,” and though he didn’t like the term, it gets right the poetry’s sense of breaking through a public surface into a hoard of personal material. Disclosure, in Lowell, manifests as equal parts ritual and chaos.
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The poem is a good representation of Robert Lowell’s work. Lowell is known for his introspective and often confessional approach, exploring complex themes such as history, identity, and morality. This poem showcases his approach by using imagery, biblical allusions, and a critical viewpoint to explore America's colonial period.
