The Boston Globe, August 10th, 2003
Poet, draft resister, Harvard professor, mental patient, ambivalent son of one of New England's first families - Robert Lowell's poetry gives us all these personas. Beginning with his 1946 collection, "Lord Weary's Castle," through 1959's "Life Studies," 1964's "For the Union Dead," and continuing through seven more books before his death in 1977, the writer's tortured and articulate emotional revelations changed the way poets and others wrote about their inner lives. Edited at one point by T. S. Eliot - and first dubbed a confessional poet by critic M. L. Rosenthal - Lowell became a huge infl...
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