His work especially during the 1960s and 1970s stressed his preoccupations with Of Poems by Baudelaire,1968), and others ( Imitations, 1961). Lowell also wrote and translated plays ( Phaedra and Figaro, 1961 TheĪeschylus, 1978), and published translations of poetry by Eugenioīaudelaire ( The Voyage and Other Versions Was published in 1977 and was awarded the National Book Award Critics CircleĪward. Lowell also won the National Book Award for his 1959 work Life Studies, and again received the Pulitzer Prize winning effort Lord Weary'sĬastle. Unlikeness, was published in 1944 and was followed in 1946 by his
During his career, he taught such poets as W. University, Harvard University, the University of Essex, and Kent University, Including the State University of Iowa, the Kenyon School of Letters, Boston Under the tutelage of Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks when he undertookįurther study at Louisiana State University (1940-1941).Īfter college, Lowell worked as an editor and as a teacher at several institutions, It was at Kenyon that Lowell made theĪcquaintance of lifelong friends Randall Jarrell and Peter Taylor.
John Crowe Ransom, and Lowell subsequently transferred to Kenyon College (1937-1940) In 1937, Boston psychiatristĪnd poet Merrill Moore sent young Lowell to meet Ford Madox Ford, who was visitingĪllen Tate in Tennessee at the time. Richard Eberhart, and Harvard University (1935-1937). Mark's School (1930-1935), where he was influenced Lowell encountered and was taught by numerous prominent poets during his classicistĮducation. In addition to being the descendant of poets, Robert Traill Spence Lowell III and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, a relation of writers American poet Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was born in Boston on March 1, 1917,
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