Robert Lowell

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Robert Lowell was a prominent 20th-century American poet and key figure in the Confessional poetry movement, known for his intensely personal and formally innovative verse.

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instanceOf American poet
Confessional poet
human
poet
awardReceived National Book Award for Poetry
National Book Critics Circle Award
surface form: National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
birthDate 1917-03-01
birthPlace Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
causeOfDeath heart attack
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1977-09-12
deathPlace New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
educatedAt Harvard University
Kenyon College
Louisiana State University
familyName Lowell NERFINISHED
fullName Robert Lowell self-linksurface differs
surface form: Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV
genre poetry
givenName Robert
influenced Anne Sexton
Sylvia Plath
W. D. Snodgrass
languageOfWorkOrName English
laterReligion Episcopalianism
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Letters
militaryConflict World War II
movement Confessional poetry
Modernism
surface form: Modernist poetry
notableFor formally innovative poetry
intensely personal verse
notableWork For the Union Dead
History
Life Studies
Lord Weary’s Castle
Near the Ocean
Notebook 1967–68
The Dolphin
The Mills of the Kavanaughs
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
occupation poet
teacher
translator
politicalPosition conscientious objector
relative Amy Lowell
James Russell Lowell
religion Roman Catholicism
spouse Caroline Blackwood
Elizabeth Hardwick
Jean Stafford
studentOf Allen Tate
John Crowe Ransom

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