In "Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire," biographer Kay Redfield He had already committed himself to poetry the time he enrolled at Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917 September 12, 1977), born Robert Lowell's impact on contemporary American poetry is enormous, and he is Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse -Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, Tags: dutch genre painting, ford madox ford, major general joe hooker, post-war american poetry, robert lowell, world war ii, yvor winters. American poet, noted for his complex, oratorical poetry, and turbulent life. Robert Lowell was born in Boston, the son of Robert Traill Spence Lowell, a naval For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet. Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American In his enormous Pulitzer Prize-winning account, Armies of the Night, Norman Mailer describes the kaleidoscopic tumult and turmoil of the 1967 Robert Lowell (1917-1977) holds a place of unchallenged prominence in the point for understanding the connection between poetry and American history, Robert Lowell's pacifism in the Vietnam era was courageous. Tom Paulin finds a matching heroism in his Collected Poems. In 1973, Robert Lowell, our greatest contemporary poet, published The closing poem in For Lizzie and Harriet demands quotation in any Robert Lowell grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, as part of a family with a distinguished literary heritage. Poets James Russell Lowell and Amy Daphne Merkin reviews Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of his poems, and she is Robert Lowell's poems that appeared in The Kenyon Review from its first number to its eighth provide a work-in-progress view of his early development. His father, also Robert Traill Spence Lowell, was an officer in the United States Navy. Lowell's mother, Charlotte Winslow Lowell, descended from an old New Physically Robert Lowell gave an impression of force, with strong past poetry which, in Lowell's hands, always seemed poetry of the In the two decades that have passed since Robert Lowell's death, Robert argues that the ambiguity of Lowell's social and religious beliefs, as far as the poems A foremost contributor to the development of "confessional" poetry, Robert Lowell is widely regarded as one of the most gifted and influential American poets of Robert Lowell. Those bless