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Lowell, Robert (Traill Spence, Jr.)

(1917–77) poet; born in Boston, Mass. He studied at Harvard (1935–37), and Kenyon College, Ohio (B.A. 1940). A conscientious objector in World War II, he served a prison sentence (1943–44). He taught at many institutions, was Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress (1947–48), and wrote several plays and translations. A troubled man and brilliant poet, he combined his two beings in launching the so-called confessional school of poetry, and has been honored for his disquieting works, as in Notebook 1967–1968 (1969; augmented 1970).
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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Impressively researched and rich in biographical details, "Flannery O'Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership" chronicles Giroux's and O'Connor's personal and professional relationship, not omitting their circle of friends and fellow writers, including Robert Lowell, Caroline Gordon, Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, Allen Tate, Thomas Merton, and Robert Penn Warren.
Axelrod once wrote that Lowell, in "Fall 1961," dramatizes what William James called "the feeling of bare time," the most profound contemplation of time which intensified his dread of nuclear threat (Robert Lowell 150).
Kay Redfield Jamison, PhD, in "Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire: A Study of Genius, Mania, and Character" (New York: Alfred A.
Sandra Hochman; LOVING ROBERT LOWELL; Turner Publishing (Nonfiction: Autobiography & Memoir) 16.99 ISBN: 9781683365372
an interview with Roberto Bolano, and a verse fragment by Robert Lowell
Yeats,o Seamus Heaney's elegy to Robert Lowell, and in turn, Lowell's elegies to several authors.
After an "overview" of the era, the book devotes a chapter to Robert Lowell and John Berryman's construction of a "language of crisis" (16), a poetic mode in which "autobiography became apocalypse" (17).
Robert Lowell's poetic imagination emerged from the extremes of New England's weather, its frozen winters and fiery summers.
He got strong enough, say, to write the brilliant story of himself and Robert Lowell at the anti-war rally featured in The Armies of the Night.
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