Robert Lowell
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – Sep 12, 1977) was an American poet. Lowell wrote in both formal, metered verse as well as free verse; his verse in some poems from Life Studies and Notebook fell somewhere in between metered and free
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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – Sep 12, 1977) was an American poet. Lowell wrote in both formal, metered verse as well as free verse; his verse in some poems from Life Studies and Notebook fell somewhere in between metered and free verse. His publication Life Studies; won the 1960 National Book Award and "featured a new emphasis on intense, uninhibited discussion of personal, family, and psychological struggles," he was considered an important part of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, where he served from 1947 until 1948. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1947. He is "widely considered one of the most important American poets of the postwar era."
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