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Robert Lowell
March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977
Poetry Listing
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| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: Children Of Light | Our fathers wrung their bread from stocks and stones | | | 2387 | | 2: Dolphin | My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, | | | 838 | | 3: Epilogue | Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme | | | 766 | | 4: For The Union Dead | The old South Boston Aquarium stands | | | 1032 | | 5: History | History has to live with what was here, | | | 989 | | 6: Home After Three Months Away | Gone now the baby's nurse, | | | 1030 | | 7: Homecoming | What was is... since 1930; | | | 1109 | | 8: Identification In Belfast | The British Army now carries two rifles, | | | 1045 | | 9: Man And Wife | Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed; | | | 1081 | | 10: Memories Of West Street And Lepke | Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming | | | 1002 | | 11: Skunk Hour | Nautilus Island's hermit | | | 935 | | 12: The Drunken Fisherman | Wallowing in this bloody sty, | | | 794 | | 13: The Old Flame | My old flame, my wife! | | | 1075 | | 14: The Quaker Graveyard In Nantucket | Let man have dominion over the fishes of the sea and | | | 866 | | 15: To Speak Of Woe That Is In Marriage | The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open. | | | 1096 | | 16: Waking In The Blue | The night attendant, a B.U. sophomore, | | | 1037 |
About:
Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917–September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an American poet whose works, confessional in nature, engaged with the questions of history and probed the dark recesses of the self. He is generally considered to be among the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.
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