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Robert Lowell


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

Died
September 12, 1977

Genre
Poetry


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 po ...more

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Collected Poems
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Life Studies and For the Un...
4.08 avg rating — 1,274 ratings — published 1967 — 4 editions
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Life Studies
4.01 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 1959 — 5 editions
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Selected Poems
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For the Union Dead
3.91 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 1964 — 6 editions
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Imitations
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Lord Weary's Castle: The Mi...
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The Letters of Robert Lowell
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Notebook
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Day by Day
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“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”
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“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”
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