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"History" is a 1973 poetry collection by American poet Robert Lowell, known for its dense, allusive meditations on personal and historical experience.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Robert Lowell
authorNationality American
authorStyle compressed diction
intellectual density
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception highly regarded by literary critics
followsInAuthorOeuvre Near the Ocean
genre confessional poetry
poetry
hasForm free verse
sequence of individual poems
hasReputation difficult and allusive
hasSubject family history
historical figures
political events
hasTheme guilt
history
memory
personal identity
politics
public and private life
time
includedIn Robert Lowell’s collected poems
influencedBy historical events of the 20th century
modernist poetry
language English
literaryPeriod 20th-century American poetry
movement postwar American poetry
notableFor dense allusive style
meditations on historical experience
meditations on personal experience
partOf Robert Lowell’s late poetry
publicationYear 1973
publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
timePeriodOfComposition early 1970s
late 1960s
usesTechnique fragmented narrative
intertextual allusion
lyric monologue

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Robert Lowell notableWork History