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A Short Biography of Robert Lowell

Author Name:

Robert Lowell

Born As:

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV

Other Names:

Born:

1 Mar 1917

Died:

12 Sep 1977




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Poet                          
Selected Works:

Land of Unlikeness - 1944
Lord Weary's Castle - 1946
The Mills of The Kavanaughs - 1951
Life Studies - 1959
Phaedra - translation - 1961
Imitations - 1961
For the Union Dead - 1964
The Old Glory - 1965
Near the Ocean - 1967
The Voyage & other versions of poems of Baudelaire - 1969
Prometheus Bound - 1969
Notebook - 1969 - Revised and Expanded Edition, 1970
For Lizzie and Harriet - 1973
History - 1973
The Dolphin - 1973
Selected Poems - 1976 - Revised Edition, 1977
Day by Day - 1977
The Oresteia of Aeschylus - 1978
Collected Poems - 2003.                          
Mother Charlotte Winslow
Father Robert Traill Spence Lowell,III
Wife one Jean Stafford 1940-1948
Wife two Elizabeth Hardwick 1949-1970
Wife three Caroline Blackwood 1970-1977                          
Appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress - 1947-1948
Pulitzer Prize - 1947 and 1974
National Book Award - 1960
National Book Critics Circle Award - 1977.                          
As a conscientious objector during World War II he served several months at the federal prison in Danbury,
During the 1960s he was active in the civil rights movement and opposed the US involvement in Vietnam. His participation in the October 1967 peace march in Washington, DC, and his subsequent arrest are described in the early sections of Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night.