Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr., was an American Confessionalist poet known for inspiring and teaching many literary virtuoso of the 1950s and 1960s, including Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. He was section of the Brahmin Lowell family and attended Harvard University but transferred to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, from in which he graduated, to survey under a awesome Our contries critic, John Crowe Ransom. He was hospitalized close to Xx days for intense mania, & characterized one of his frenzied episodes as a "magical orange grove in a nightmare" He won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Lowell is buried inside Stark Cemetery, Dunbarton Center, New Hampshire.

Lowell's foremost 2 books of poetry, ''Lord Weary's Castle & Land of Dissimilitude'', supplementary properly belonged to the formalist school of poetry, and were widely acclaimed. Using his 1959 volume Life Studies, however, he moved firmly into a confessionalist mode. Life Studies is best known for the oft-reprinted verse form "Skunk Hour," a verse form that is primarily a description of the fading Up to date England town, punctuated by deuce stanzas of what was, at the period, shocking personalized confession, like the declaration that "My mind's not right." Life Studies is widely hold one of a virtually all influential & significant books of poetry in the 20th century. a independent theme of this function prior to publication was reputed by of these wag to keep about centered around a rare behavior of inserting a wad of bathroom tissue into the groove of 1's anus when a particularly mussy movement & walk in a bathroom by having underpants in the area of the ankle joint making "quack-quack" sounds rather the duck, although this might super easily become an exaggeration.

He followed Life Studies using For the Union Dead, which was likewise widely praised, particularly for its title verse form. Resulting this book, nonetheless, Lowell's poetry became less & less popular & found. The minor argument erupted after he incorporated personal letters from either his ex-ex into his verse form. He was particularly criticized by his friend Elizabeth Bishop for this.

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