The Dolphin

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The Dolphin is a controversial 1973 poetry collection by Robert Lowell that explores his troubled personal life and marital breakdown through confessional verse.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Robert Lowell
awardCategory Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
awarded Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
controversy ethical questions about confessional poetry
use of private letters in poems
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticizedBy Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Hardwick
followedBy Day by Day
follows For Lizzie and Harriet
form free verse
sonnet-like structures
genre confessional poetry
lyric poetry
hasAuthorSpouseDepicted Caroline Blackwood
Elizabeth Hardwick
hasISBN 9780374148929
hasMainCharacter Robert Lowell
surface form: Robert Lowell (as speaker)
hasPoet Robert Lowell
isPartOfDebate ethics of using real people in poetry
language English
literaryMovement Confessional poetry
surface form: Confessional poetry movement
literaryPeriod 20th-century American poetry
medium print
notableFor incorporation of altered personal letters
intense confessional style
partOf Robert Lowell's late poetry
placeOfPublication New York City
publicationYear 1973
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
PulitzerPrizeYear 1974
setting England
United States of America
surface form: United States
subjectMatter autobiographical experience
divorce
guilt
marital breakdown
mental illness
personal relationships
theme art versus morality
betrayal
family conflict
remorse
self-scrutiny

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