Lowell, Robert (Vol. 3) - Lowell, Robert 1917–
Lowell, Robert 1917–
Poet, translator, editor, playwright, and critic, Lowell is considered one of America's foremost living men of letters. During the late 1940's and the 1950's his personal life underwent a series of radical upheavals that profoundly affected his poetry. He recently expanded and revised Notebook, 1967–68 into three volumes: History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12, rev. ed.)
Mr. Lowell's [early] subject was of the largest [kind]; it had to do with history and the self. And although this was also the subject of some of his great elder fellow-poets, he had special reasons for laying claim to it too. Boston, city of historic battles and embattled selves, was his birthright as well as his birthplace; his family history was in some degree its history. And so the Boston of the old families, with its monuments, its Public Garden, its favorite suburbs and...
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