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Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977 / Boston / United States)
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Robert Lowell was born in 1917 into one of Boston's oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring .. more >>
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  At it in its familiar twang: "My friend,
Cut your own throat. Cut your own throat. Now! Now!"
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough
Cracks with the unpicked apples, and at dawn
T...
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. After the Surprising Conversions (l. 42-46). . . Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993)...
 
  ''this planned
Babel of Boston where our money talks''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. As a Plane Tree by the Water (l. 2-3). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950)...
 
  ''Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones
And fenced their gardens with the Redman's bones;''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Children of Light (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford Uni...
 
  ''the mud
Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart,
The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Colloquy in Black Rock (l. 24-26). . . Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993) Farrar, S...
 
  O mud
For watermelons gutted to the crust,
Mud for the mole-tide harbor, mud for mouse,
Mud for the armored Diesel fishing tubs that thud
A year and a day to wind and tide; the dus...
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Colloquy in Black Rock (l. 11-16). . . Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993) Farrar, S...
 
  ''Eliot dead, you saying,
"And who is left to understand my jokes?
My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of
poet."''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Ezra Pound (l. 7-9). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2...
 
  ''And I, "Who else has been in Purgatory?"
And he, "To begin with a swelled head and end with swelled
feet."''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Ezra Pound (l. 13-14). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. ...
 
  ''Their monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
Its Colonel is as lean
as a compass-needle.''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. For the Union Dead (l. 29-32). . . Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993) Farrar, Strau...
 
  ''The Aquarium is gone. Everywhere,
giant finned cars nose forward like fish;
a savage servility
slides by on grease.''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. For The Union Dead, st. 17, For The Union Dead (1964). Last stanza.
 
  ''Colonel Shaw
and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry
on St. Gaudens shaking Civil War relief,
propped by a plank splint against the garage's earthquake.''
Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. For the Union Dead (l. 21-24). . . Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993) Farrar, Strau...
 

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