Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell
Robert Traill Spence Lowell IVwas an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. The literary scholar Paula Hayes believes that Lowell mythologized New England, particularly in his early work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 March 1917
CountryUnited States of America
I'm sure that writing isn't a craft, that is, something for which you learn the skills and go on turning out. It must come from some deep impulse, deep inspiration. That can't be taught, it can't be what you use in teaching.
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.
Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes
Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.
It's a completely powerful and serious book, as good as anything in prose or poetry written by a 'beat' writer, and one of the most alive books written by any American for years. I don't see how it could be considered immoral.
Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.
Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder,
It's the light of the oncoming train.
And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.
I myself am hell; nobody's here
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.
the scythers, Time and Death, Helmed locusts, move upon the tree of breath
Wallowing in this bloody sty, I cast for fish that pleased my eye