Robert Lowell (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Robert Lowell was born into an established family of influential but unhappy New England
Protestants. His mother’s neurotic personality and his father’s professional failure
gave rise to frequent family tensions that may account for Lowell’s later depressions and
his feelings of spiritual homelessness. Inspired by Allen
Tate’s idea that poetry expresses experienced revelations of larger,
impersonal ideas, Lowell transferred from Harvard to Kenyon College, where [The entire page is 875 words long]
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