Robert Lowell
Robert "Cal" Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet, considered to be one of the founders of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948. He won the Pulitzer Prize in both 1947 and 1974, the National Book Award in 1960, and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977.
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“And I, “Who else has been in Purgatory?”
And he, “To begin with a swelled head and end with swelled
feet.””
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.”
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