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Robert Lowell [1917-1977] USA
Ranked #160 in the top 380 poets
Votes 80%: 196 up, 50 down

Subjects: His family, past and present. Intense, uninhibited discussion of personal, family, and psychological struggles.

Much of Lowell's work, which often combined the public with the personal, did not conform to a typical "confessional poetry" model. Instead, Lowell worked in a number of distinctive stylistic modes and forms over the course of his career.

Lowell famously divided American poetry into two camps: the "cooked" and the "raw." This commentary by Lowell was made in reference t...
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Bipolar disorder, Confessionalism, Formalism, Laureate, Modernism

YearsCountryPoetInteraction
1621-1678
ENG
Andrew Marvell
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1631-1700
ENG
John Dryden
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1688-1744
ENG
Alexander Pope
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1803-1882
USA
Ralph Waldo Emerson
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1819-1891
USA
Herman Melville
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1874-1963
USA
Robert Frost
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1879-1955
USA
Wallace Stevens
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1883-1963
USA
William Carlos Williams
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1897-1970
USA
Louise Bogan
→ disliked Robert Lowell
1899-1932
USA
Harold Hart Crane
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1899-1979
USA
Allen Tate
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1913-1966
USA
Delmore Schwartz
→ friend of Robert Lowell
1914-1965
USA
Randall Jarrell
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1926-1997
USA
Allen Ginsberg
→ influenced Robert Lowell
1940-1996
RUS/USA
Joseph Brodsky
→ dedicated Robert Lowell
-525--431
GRC
Aeschylus
← translated by Robert Lowell
-65--8
ROM
Horace
← translated by Robert Lowell
1265-1321
ITA
Dante Alighieri
← translated by Robert Lowell
1431-1463
FRA
Francois Villon
← imitated by Robert Lowell
1819-1891
USA
James Russell Lowell
← relative by Robert Lowell
1874-1925
USA
Amy Lowell
← relative by Robert Lowell
1911-1979
USA
Elizabeth Bishop
← friend of Robert Lowell
1914-1972
USA
John Berryman
← close to by Robert Lowell
1928-1974
USA
Anne Sexton
← influenced by Robert Lowell
1929-2012
USA
Adrienne Rich
← friend of Robert Lowell
1930-
LCA
Derek Walcott
← influenced by Robert Lowell
1932-1963
USA
Sylvia Plath
← influenced by Robert Lowell


WorkLangRating
The Old Flame
eng
13
To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage
eng
6
Children of Light
eng
5
Epilogue
eng
2
For the Union Dead
eng
2
Man and Wife
eng
2
Dolphin
eng
1
Memories of West Street and Lepke
eng
1
Sailing Home From Rapallo
eng
1
After The Surprising Conversions
eng
0
Falling Asleep Over The Aeneid
eng
0
History
eng
0
Home After Three Months Away
eng
0
Homecoming
eng
0
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
eng
0
My Last Afternoon With Uncle Devereux Winslow
eng
0
Skunk Hour
eng
0
The Drunken Fisherman
eng
0
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
eng
0
Waking in the Blue
eng
0

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