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- In the 1940s he wrote intricate and tightly patterned poems that incorporated traditional meter and rhyme; when he published Life Studies, he began to write startlingly original personal or confessional poetry in much looser forms and meters; in the 1960s he wrote increasingly public poetry; and finally, in the 1970s, he created poems that incorporated and extended elements of all the earlier poetry.
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Considered by many to be the most important poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century, Lowell continued to develop his work with sometimes uneven results, all along defining the restless center of American poetry, until his sudden death on September 12, 1977, from a heart attack at age sixty.
Nov 1, 2017 · The poetry critic Edmund Wilson, whose own former stature as a literary journalist seems nearly unimaginable in contemporary culture, deemed Lowell one of only two poets in the twentieth century able to achieve a career “on the old nineteenth-century scale.”
History included poems that primarily dealt with world history from antiquity up to the mid-20th century (although the book did not always follow a linear or logical path and contained many poems about Lowell's friends, peers, and family).
Robert Lowell was a great confessional poet of the 20th century, exploring taboo topics such as mental illness, sex, and personal turmoil.
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.
Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the twentieth century. In the s and ‘ s, he was an emblematic poet of his time, but a more nuanced appreciation is now necessary. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell’s life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives.
