About Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was an American poet and writer and one of the most popular poets of his time. Born in Boston, he descended from an English family and converted to Catholicism under the influence of Allen Tate, with whom he studied at Kenyon College. This conversion, moreover, was temporary and is evident in his Life Studies (1959), whose title itself indicates its autobiographical inspiration. As if trying to escape this tendency, Lowell changes genre and tone in his Notebook: 1967-68 (1970), a book that is a chronicle of his literary and political life. A chronicle that is by no means inconsequential, since the poems are charged with great meaning and rich human experience. Lowell was also a notable translator of famous French poets such as Racine, Villon, Baudelaire, and Mallarmé.Browse all poems and texts published on Robert Lowell
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
