21. Robert Lowell An introduction to the poet by Professor Eiichi Hishikawa, Faculty of Letters, Kobe University. http://www.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/lowell.htm

My Poet Pages Poet Links Robert Lowell (1917-77) Father's Bedroom In my Father's bedroom: blue threads as thin as pen-writing on the bedspread, blue dots on the curtains, a blue kimono, Chinese sandals with blue plush straps. The broad-planked floor had a sandpapered neatness. The clear glass bed-lamp with a white doily shade was still raised a few inches by resting on volume two of Lafcadio Hearn's Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan . Its warped olive cover was punished like a rhinoceros hide. In the flyleaf: 'Robbie from Mother.' Years later in the same hand: 'This book has had hard usage On the Yangtze River, China. It was left under an open porthole in a storm.' [(from Life Studies Selected Poems Biographical Notes Born: Mar. 1, 1917, Boston Died: Sept. 12, 1977 (from a heart attack) Full Name: Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr. Married: Jean Stafford (fiction-writer, divorced in 1948); Elizabeth Hardwick (writer). Education: Harvard University, Kenyon College (undergraduate degree in classics) Influenced by: Elizabeth Drew's Discovering Poetry Roman Catholicism: An interest in it "dominates his earlier volumes Land of Unlikeness Lord Weary's Castle (1946), and

22. [minstrels] Skunk Hour -- Robert Lowell From Judith Louise zencat@ While I hesitate to criticize robert lowell, the subtle bigotry of our fairy decorator left a sour taste, especially when http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1309.html

[1309] Skunk Hour Title : Skunk Hour Poet : Robert Lowell Date : 26 Jul 2003 For Elizabeth Bishop Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq Inspired by yesterday's poem... Skunk Hour Robert Lowell http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lowell/skunk.htm Axelrod comes closest to my personal interpretation, though I'll admit that this is one of those poems that I think searching for hidden meanings only weakens. Poem #573 is another snapshot of a decaying sea town. I've just noticed that we've run only one other Robert Lowell poem (fairly recently, that too), and no biography. So here it is: http://www.holycross.edu/departments/english/sluria/rolowell.htm martin Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com [this poem is archived, accessible and awaiting your comments at] http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1309.html minstrels-subscribe@ zencat@

23. Robert Lowell Life Stories, Books, & Links Stories about robert lowell s life and Day by Day, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Lord Weary s Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Notebook. http://www.todayinliterature.com/biography/robert.lowell.asp

TABLE OF CONTENTS Robert Lowell - Life Stories, Books, and Links Biographical Information Stories about Robert Lowell Selected works by this author Selected books about / related to this author ... Recommended links BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977) Category: American Literature Born: March 1, 1917 Boston, United States Died: September 12, 1977 New York City, United States Related authors: John Berryman Sylvia Plath Theodore Roethke list all writers Robert Lowell - LIFE STORIES The Death of Robert Lowell read it now! On this day in 1977, the poet Robert Lowell died at the age of sixty in the back seat of a New York City taxi. Lowell was on his way from JFK airport to his ex-wife, the writer Elizabeth Hardwick, after a disastrous meeting in Ireland with his present wife, the writer and Guiness heiress, Caroline Blackwood. On this day in 1943 Robert Lowell went to jail for draft evasion. Lowell was barely published at this point, but because he came from a venerated Boston family the event made headline news. He would later turn the jail time into "Memories of West Street and Lepke," a centerpiece poem in Life Studies , the 1959 collection regarded by many as the most important book of American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.

24. Poet: Robert Lowell - All Poems Of Robert Lowell Poet robert lowell All poems of robert lowell .. poetry. http://www.poemhunter.com/robert-lowell/

Poem Hunter .com Poet: Robert Lowell - All poems of Robert Lowell 1/27/2008 4:32:49 AM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977 / USA) Free Poetry E-Book: 16 poems of Robert Lowell File Size: 165k File Format: Acrobat Reader To download the eBook right-Click on the title and select "Save Target As". Biography Poems Quotations Comments ... Stats Robert Lowell was born in 1917 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. He took graduate courses at Louisiana .. .. more >> Poems Search in the poems of Robert Lowell Click the title of the poem you'd like read. "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" Children of Light Dolphin Epilogue ... Waking in the Blue Quotations "At it in its familiar twang: "My friend, Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!" September twenty-second, Sir, the bough Cracks with the unpicked apples, and at dawn

25. Powell's Books - Robert Lowell's Life And Work: Damaged Grandeur (Poets On Poetr A critical memoir of robert lowell by a friend and former student who knew him well . http://www.powells.com/biblio?isbn=9780472065707

26. Life Studies - New York Times The final line of robert lowell s Eye and Tooth, one of the many poems about depression in For the Union Dead (1964), feels ominously prescient of a http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E4DB1F38F93AA15755C0A9659C8B6

27. Lowell, Robert | Authors | Guardian Unlimited Books The Letters of robert lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, display his prodigious talent for prose, as well as offering an intimate portrait of his http://books.guardian.co.uk/authors/author/0,,-249,00.html

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28. Why Read 1,200 Pages Of Robert Lowell? - By A.O. Scott - Slate Magazine In his introduction to robert lowell s Collected Poems, just published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Frank Bidart writes that lowell, his friend and http://www.slate.com/id/2084651/

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29. Robert Lowell, Jr. --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on robert lowell, Jr. American poet noted for his complex, autobiographical poetry. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9049157/Robert-Lowell-Jr

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30. Robert Lowell — Infoplease.com lowell, robert (robert Traill Spence lowell 4th), 1917–77, American poet and translator, widely considered the preeminent poet of the mid20th cent., b. http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0830478.html

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31. The Paris Review - The Art Of Poetry No. 3 lowell When I began writing most of the great writers were quite unpopular. robert Browning, Catullus, Hart Crane, Michael Drayton, William Empson, http://www.parisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4664

Return to Interview Archive Index ROBERT LOWELL The Art of Poetry No. 3 Interviewed by Frederick Seidel Issue 25, Winter-Spring 1961 Purchase this issue View a manuscript page Download a PDF of the full interview INTERVIEWER LOWELL Download a PDF of the full interview SEARCH Full Search E-mail this page Print View Cart ... Check Out INTERVIEW Kenzaburo Oe FICTION Graham Joyce Alistair Morgan ENCOUNTER Liao Yiwu POETRY Louise Glück Bob Hicok PHOTOGRAPHS Nicolás Haro WEB EXCLUSIVE Liao Yiwu Authors Mentioned Charles Baudelaire Saul Bellow Elizabeth Bishop Anton Chekhov ... William Carlos Williams , Aeschylus, Richard Palmer Blackmur, Robert Browning, Catullus, Hart Crane, Michael Drayton, William Empson, Ford Madox Ford, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Randall Jarrell, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, John Keats, Jules Laforgue, Amy Lowell, James Russell Lowell, Andrew Marvell, Flannery O'Connor, J. F. Powers, Propertius, John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, W. D. Snodgrass, Sophocles, Allen Tate, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Yvor Winters Terms and Conditions Contact Site Map

32. Robert Lowell - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Bipolar Poet A brief biography of Pulitzer Prizewinning poet robert lowell. lowell suffered from bouts of mania and depression throughout his adult life. http://bipolar.about.com/library/celebs/bl-robertlowell.htm

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33. Voices And Visions Spotlight -- Robert Lowell Learn more about robert lowell by visiting Web sites that explore his life and poetry. Voices Visions, a video series from The Annenberg Media Multimedia http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/Lowell.html

Elizabeth Bishop Hart Crane Emily Dickinson T. S. Eliot ... Langston Hughes Robert Lowell Marianne Moore Sylvia Plath Ezra Pound Wallace Stevens ... William Carlos Williams Considered the leading poet of his generation, Robert Lowell in his early work examined historyemploying the past to make commentaries on the present. In the 1950s, the poet began to merge public with personal history. Following the lead of the so-called confessional poets, his own style shifted from densely textured formalism to the more open structures and autobiographical subject matter that would characterize a great deal of American poetry to the present day. View a video clip of the Robert Lowell poem "My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow". Academy of American Poets Walk among the "trees with Latin labels" as Lowell reads "The Public Garden" at the Academy of American Poets' Lowell page. More than a dozen other Lowell poems, the excellent essay/exhibit "Life Studies: American Poetry from T. S. Eliot to Allen Ginsberg," a biography, and a selected bibliography further enrich the site. Robert Lowell Papers "I was a small electric doll..." Such an enticing excerpt makes one want to probe the University of Texas at Austin's entire collection of Lowell's papers to gain more insight into the poet and his work. The materials, mainly Lowell's working papers from 1970-1977, are maintained by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

34. Drama And Dramatic Strategies In Robert Lowell's Notebook 1967-68 | Twentieth Ce Drama and dramatic strategies in robert Lowells Notebook 196768 from Twentieth Century Literature in Arts provided free by Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0403/is_n1_v44/ai_20851474

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35. The Atlantic Online | Flashbacks | The Difficult Grandeur Of Robert Lowell A collection of articles on robert lowell. robert lowell was the voice of an American generation. By Jack Beatty From Atlantic Unbound http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/robertlowell.htm

Home Current Issue Back Issues Premium Archive ... Subscriber Help Browse >> Foreign Affairs Subscribe to our free e-mail newsletters More on poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. From the archives: "The Country's Changing Measure" (June 1986) "Robert Lowell was the voice of an American generation." By Jack Beatty From Atlantic Unbound Soundings: "For the Union Dead" (April 11, 2001) Read aloud by Frank Bidart, Peter Davison, and Robert Pinsky. Introduction by Peter Davison. Flashbacks The Difficult Grandeur of Robert Lowell June 18, 2003 One day, discussing the reviews of his late work [with the poetry critic Helen Vendler], Lowell lamented, "Why don't they ever say what I'd like them to say?" "What's that?" Vendler asked. "That I'm heartbreaking," he said. Atlantic obert Lowell was one of the twentieth century's most esteemed American poets. As a manic depressive who experienced alternating bouts of depression and mania, he was also one of its most tormented. "The Poetry of Heartbreak" (July/August Atlantic ), Peter Davison reviews this collection and situates his extensive body of work within the context of his chaotic life. By the time Lowell died at age sixty, he had been married and separated three times, had renounced his Protestant roots for what turned out to be a temporary obsession with Catholicism, and had spent much of his adult life in and out of mental hospitals. During his manic spells, he was overtaken by surges of larger-than-life emotion that ended up reflected in his poetry. As Davison describes it

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37. Robert Lowell (I) Actor I Accuse My Parents. Visit IMDb for Photos, Filmography, Discussions, Bio, News, Awards, Agent, Fan Sites. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523111/

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38. Robert Lowell News - The New York Times News about robert lowell. Commentary and archival information about robert lowell from The New York Times. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/l/robert_lowell/index

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40. CRITICAL MASS In Retrospect Robert Lowell At Harvard, Fall 1969 In the fall of 1969, as a freshman, I applied, and was admitted, to robert lowell s advanced poetry workshop at Harvard, a coveted class with a limited http://bookcriticscircle.blogspot.com/2007/08/in-retrospect-robert-lowell-at-har

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