Robert Lowell Summary

Biography EssayFor some readers and critics Robert Lowell stood at the center of his literary generation, and by the mid 1960s one admirer, Irvin Ehrenpreis, was referring to "The Age of Lowell." One ... Read more

For some readers and critics the late Robert Lowell stood at the center of his literary generation, and by the mid-1960s one admirer, Irvin Ehrenpreis, was referring to "The Age of Lowell." One can se... Read more

Critical Essay by John Simon [In The Old Glory] Lowell is trying to capture the ironies, cruelties and inconclusiveness on which America was built: in Endecott, the ambiguities are chiefly religious;... Read more

Critical Essay by Robert Fitzgerald In Lowell's work I have always felt a giant pressure exerted on language and experience, not only in dense and highly wrought poems but in relatively conver... Read more

Critical Essay by David Kalstone Historical judgment and public distance—the tone realized, for example, in "For the Union Dead"—are entangled with [Robert Lowell's... Read more

Critical Essay by John Haffenden Robert Lowell's career as a poet moderated or wavered between his natural inclination towards symbolic formalism and his courtship of confessional free verse&#... Read more

Critical Essay by William Bedford That Robert Lowell was always interested in formal experiment we may argue from the evidence of the poems. What I would like to suggest here is that this interest is... Read more

Critical Essay by Sandra Prewitt Edelman What, one wonders, would attract a poet to rewrite what is already a rewriting of a translation from the original Greek. For that is what Robert Lowell did wi... Read more

Critical Essay by Charles Altieri The doctrine of incarnation has an inherent appeal to poetic thought because it promises to resolve the two basic forms of contradiction bred by a sense of the ironi... Read more

In the following essay, Druska provides an overview of Lowell's literary career, artistic development, and major themes in his poetry. I. His Career The speaker of Robert Lowell's &#x... Read more

In the following essay, Tillinghast discusses Lowell's death and offers critical evaluation of Day by Day. To read Robert Lowell's last book, Day by Day, published shortly before his ... Read more

In the following essay, Lane discusses Lowell's use of allusion and metaphorical reference in "Man and Wife," "Sailing Home from Rapollo," and "For the Union ... Read more

In the following review, Bogen offers positive evaluation of Lowell's Collected Prose. Robert Lowell was probably the last American poet who might be described as formidable. His stylistic t... Read more

In the following essay, Hammer examines Lowell's artistic break from the influence of Allen Tate and the significance of Lowell's nervous breakdown as a metaphor for this schism as evide... Read more

In the following essay, Doreski explores Lowell's effort to reconcile his aesthetic attraction to warfare and moral objection to the Second World War in the poetry of Land of Unlikeness. In ... Read more