Robert Lowell

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born

March 01, 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

died

September 12, 1977

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male

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Poetry

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Robert Lowell, born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an American poet whose works, confessional in nature, engaged with the questions of history and probed the dark recesses of the self. He is generally considered to be among the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.

His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, at the age of thirty), were influenced by his conversion from Episcopalianism to Catholicism and explored the dark side of America's Puritan legacy.

Under the influence of Allen Tate and the New Critics, he wrote rigorously formal poetry that drew praise for its exceptionally powerful handling of meter and rhyme. Lowell was politically in...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,860 ratings · 140 reviews · 52 distinct works

	Collected Poems by Robert Lowell, David Gewanter (Editor), Frank Bidart (Introduction) 4.11 avg rating — 639 ratings — published 1973 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Life Studies & for the Union Dead 4.00 avg rating — 448 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Poems 4.03 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1965 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Imitations 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Life Studies 3.95 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1956 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Lord Weary's Castle: The Mills of the Kavanaughs 3.91 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1968	My rating:
	For The Union Dead 3.83 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1964 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Letters of Robert Lowell by Robert Lowell (Editor), Saskia Hamilton (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Notebook 4.20 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1969 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Day by Day 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”
― Robert Lowell

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“In the end, there is no end.”
― Robert Lowell

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“Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;
peace to our children when they fall
in small war on the heel of small
war--until the end of time
to police the earth, a ghost
orbiting forever lost
in our monotonous sublime”
― Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean: Poems

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