biography
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Lowell, Robert (Traill Spence), Jr
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| lived:
| (1917–77)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA into the renowned Lowell family. He studied at Harvard, but left to study poetry, criticism, and classics under John Crowe Ransom at Kenyon College, OH. During World War 2 he was a conscientious objector, and served five months of a prison sentence. In 1940 he married the writer Jean Stafford, and during their turbulent relationship published his first collection - the self-critical autobiographical Land of Unlikeness (1944). His widely acclaimed second volume, Lord Weary's Castle (1946), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, and he was accorded the status of a major poet. He divorced in 1948, and married twice more. Other confessional volumes followed, including Life Studies (1959) and The Dolphin (1973). |
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