New Selected Poems/Robert Lowell/2017/EPUB/

New Selected Poems/Robert Lowell/2017/EPUB/

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In this condensed edition of Selected Poems, Robert Lowell’s poems are brought together from all of his books of verse.

Chosen and introduced by Katie Peterson on the occasion of Robert Lowell’s one hundredth birthday,

Selected Poems offers a perfectly chosen and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century.

Robert Lowell was 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

Lowell once wrote written that "looking over my Selected Poems, about thirty years of writing, my impression is that the thread that strings it together is my autobiography."

Included is “"For the Union Dead" was an pretty important poem for Lowell. In fact, he titled a collection of poems after this particular poem.

Evidence of Lowell's personal history is all wrapped up in the goings on of this poem.

Because of his lineage he likely felt personally tied to Colonel Shaw and the 54th infantry, as well as to the deep and racially conflicted history of Boston