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Robert Lowell was one of the best confessional poets of the 20th century, exploring raw, taboo topics such as mental illness, family, and personal turmoil. Poet PDF Guide Poems Cite. Robert Lowell was one of the great names of 20th-century confessional American poetry.
An introduction to the ground-breaking mid-20th century poet. By Benjamin Voigt. [Jump to poems by publication year: 1970s | 1980s | 2000s] If Robert Lowell ’s (1917-1977) great subject was history, his work made him a part of it. Few had such a significant impact on 20th-century poetics.
By Troy Jollimore. Photo by Tony Evans/Getty Images. “Skunk Hour” depicts a man at a moment of crisis. In the early 1950s, Robert Lowell was a successful, even famous poet, yet was writing few poems. American culture was changing rapidly and dynamically in those postwar years, and Lowell—due in part to his encounters with Allen Ginsberg ...
Mar 13, 2017 · The Illness and Insight of Robert Lowell. A new book is the first to bring clinical expertise to the poet’s case. What does it reveal about his work? By Dan Chiasson. March 13, 2017. From his...
Nov 1, 2017 · A Lowell poem presented a thicket of allusions: “There were no tickets for that altitude / once held by Hellas, when the Goddess stood, / prince, pope, philosopher and golden bough, / pure mind and murder at the scything prow— / Minerva, the miscarriage of the brain” (“Beyond the Alps”).
Mar 1, 2017 · Books blog Robert Lowell. This article is more than 7 years old. Robert Lowell at 100: why his poetry has never been more relevant. Lowell’s confessional work of the 1960s marked a sea...
Biography. 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.
