Robert Lowell. To meet a need which had been felt for some time both in the United States and abroad, the pamphlet series, the University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, was established in 1959. By providing readable critical introductions to American Writers, the pamphlets were designed to meet the needs and tastes of mature students and readers of imaginative literature throughout the world.
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Robert Lowell Robert Lowell (pp. 5-46)For all the horrors of this age, and for all the attractions of others . . . I’d rather be alive now than at any other time I know of. This age is mine, and I want very much to be a part of it,” Robert Lowell remarked in 1965. Though deeply, irredeemably, involved in the present, Lowell characteristically approaches the present through the perspective of the past. This is hardly surprising. Born on March 1, 1917, into a family whose history was mingled with New England’s, Lowell was personally obliged to acknowledge the importance of his lineage and forced...
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Selected Bibliography Selected Bibliography (pp. 47-48)