My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
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The Poem
“My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow” is a richly autobiographical poem of 152 lines, divided into four parts. The shortest part is an eleven-line description of the poet at only five-and-a-half, dressed in a sailor blouse; the longest parts (I and IV) are about fifty lines each and narrate an account of Robert Lowell’s memory of a young uncle, who was shortly to die of Hodgkin’s disease. Lowell’s Life Studies volume (1959), to which this poem makes a significant contribution, contains many clearly rendered portraits of the poet and his...
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