Robert Lowell (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Robert Trail Spence Lowell, Jr., was born into the well-known Lowell family of Boston. His father, however, was not a distinguished member of that family, being a commander in the United States Navy and later an unsuccessful businessman. At the time of Robert's birth, his mother's family, the Winslows, had more money and more prestige, and his mother smothered her son with affection, while denigrating her husband's incompetence. Lowell's memoir “91 Revere Street” in Life Studies (1959) shows a sensitive child caught in the perpetual conflict of his...
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