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Mar 22, 2024 · Robert Lowell, Jr. (born March 1, 1917, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died September 12, 1977, New York, New York) was an American poet noted for his complex, autobiographical poetry. Lowell grew up in Boston. James Russell Lowell was his great-granduncle, and Amy, Percival, and A. Lawrence Lowell were distant cousins.
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. Robert Lowell was one of the great names of 20th-century confessional American poetry. Robert was part of a very prominent Boston family that had literature running through its veins.
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.
Nov 1, 2017 · The Robert Lowell poems I selected for New Selected Poems, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this year, emphasize the perishability of life, its twinned quality of fragility and repetition, as framed by the structured evanescence of daily consciousness. The problem of the human person here is the difficulty and promise of having a good day.
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 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...
Jul 27, 2022 · Robert Lowell. This article is more than 1 year old. Memoirs by Robert Lowell review – a poet’s life. A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from...
