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Robert Lowell. 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. In the 1940s he wrote intricate and tightly patterned poems ...
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Robert Lowell is considered one of the most important American poets of the postwar era. His work continues to resonate with readers today for its unflinching exploration of personal struggles, family history, and the political turmoil of his time. Lowell's poetry is characterized by formal mastery and a confessional intensity. He often drew ...
On March 1, 1917, Robert Lowell was born into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied poetry under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940.
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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. He was born into an old, prominent Bostonian family which gave Lowell a strong sense of personal and national history which ...
Robert Lowell, born Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV, was an American poet from Boston Massachusetts. His heritage and youth informed many of his poems which were often set in the Northeast region of the United States. He cited poets like Elizabeth Bishop and William Carlos Williams as his inspiration.
