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Born in March 1, 1917 / Died in September 12, 1977 / United States / English

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BOOKS

  • Anzilotti, Rolando, editor, Robert Lowell: A Tribute, Nistri-Lischi Editori (Pisa), 1979.
  • Axelrod, Steven Gould, Robert Lowell: Life and Art, Princeton University Press, 1978.
  • Axelrod and Helen Deese, editors, Robert Lowell: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall, 1982.
  • Axelrod and Deese, editors, Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 1986.
  • Bell, Vereen M., Robert Lowell: Nihilist as Hero, Harvard University Press, 1983.
  • Berryman, John, The Freedom of the Poet, Farrar, Straus, 1976.
  • Bogan, Louise, Selected Criticism: Prose and Poetry, Noonday, 1955.
  • Breslin, James E. B., From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry, 1945-1965, University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren, editors, Conversations on the Craft of Poetry, Holt, 1961.
  • Brustein, Robert, Seasons of Discontent: Dramatic Opinions, 1959-1965, Simon & Schuster, 1967.
  • Cambon, Glauco, The Inclusive Flame: Studies in Modern American Poetry, Indiana University Press, 1963.
  • Clurman, Harold, The Naked Image: Observations on the Modern Theatre, Macmillan, 1966.
  • Contemporary Authors Bibliographical Series, Volume 2:American Poets, Gale, 1986.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale, Volume 1, 1973, Volume 2, 1974, Volume 3, 1975, Volume 4, 1975, Volume 5, 1976, Volume 8, 1978, Volume 9, 1978, Volume 11, 1979, Volume 15, 1980, Volume 37, 1986.
  • Cooper, Philip, The Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell, University of North Carolina Press, 1970.
  • Cosgrave, Patrick, The Public Poetry of Robert Lowell, Gollancz, 1970, Taplinger, 1972.
  • Crick, John, Robert Lowell, Oliver & Boyd, 1974.
  • Deutsch, Babette, Poetry in Our Time, Holt, 1952, revised edition, Doubleday, 1963.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets since World War II, Gale, 1980, Volume 169: American Poets since World War II, fifth series, 1996.
  • Dillard, R. H. W., George Garrett, and John Rees Moore, editors, The Sounder Few: Essays from the Hollins Critic, University of Georgia Press, 1971.
  • Donoghue, Denis, Connoisseurs of Chaos: Ideas of Order in American Poetry, Macmillan, 1965.
  • Ehrenpreis, Irvin, editor, American Poetry, St. Martin's, 1965.
  • Fein, Richard J., Robert Lowell, Twayne, 1970, 2nd edition, 1979.
  • Frankenberg, Lloyd, Pleasure Dome: On Reading Modern Poetry, Houghton, 1949.
  • Hamilton, Ian, Robert Lowell: A Biography, Random House, 1982.
  • Hart, Henry, Robert Lowell and the Sublime,Syracuse University Press, 1995.
  • Hungerford, Edward, editor, Poets in Progress, Northwestern University Press, 1962, new edition, 1967.
  • Jarrell, Randall, Poetry and the Age, Knopf, 1953, reprinted, Vintage, 1959.
  • Jarrell, The Third Book of Criticism, Farrar, Straus, 1969.
  • Kalstone, David, Five Temperaments: Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Oxford University Press, 1977.
  • Kazin, Alfred, Contemporaries, Little, Brown, 1962.
  • Kazin, New York Jew, Knopf, 1978.
  • Kostelanetz, Richard, On Contemporary Literature: An Anthology of Critical Essays on the Major Movements and Writers of Contemporary Literature, Avon, 1964.
  • Kunitz, Stanley, Next-to-Last Things: New Poems and Essays, Atlantic Monthly, 1985.
  • London, Michael, and Robert Boyars, editors, Robert Lowell: A Portrait of the Artist in His Time, David Lewis, 1970.
  • Mailer, Norman, The Armies of the Night, New American Library, 1968.
  • Mariani, Paul, Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell,Norton, 1994.
  • Martin, Jay, Robert Lowell, University of Minnesota Press, 1970.
  • Mazzaro, Jerome, The Achievement of Robert Lowell: 1939-1959, University of Detroit Press, 1960.
  • Mazzaro, The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell, University of Michigan Press, 1965.
  • Mazzaro, editor, Profile of Robert Lowell, Merrill, 1971.
  • Meiners, R. K., Everything to Be Endured: An Essay on Robert Lowell and Modern Poetry, University of Missouri Press, 1970.
  • Meyers, Jeffrey, editor, Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs, University of Michigan Press, 1988.
  • Mills, Ralph J., Cry of the Human: Essays on Contemporary Poetry, University of Illinois Press, 1975.
  • Ostroff, Anthony, editor, The Contemporary Poet as Artist and Critic, Little, Brown, 1964.
  • Parkinson, Thomas Francis, editor, Robert Lowell: A Collection of Critical Essays, Prentice-Hall, 1968.
  • Perloff, Marjorie, The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell, Cornell University Press, 1973.
  • Plimpton, George, editor, Writers at Work: "Paris Review" Interviews, 2nd series, Viking, 1963.
  • Poetry Criticism, Volume 3, Gale, 1991.
  • Price, Jonathan, editor, Critics on Robert Lowell, University of Miami Press, 1972.
  • Procopiow, Norma, Robert Lowell: The Poet and His Critics, American Library Association, 1984.
  • Raffel, Burton, Robert Lowell, Ungar, 1981.
  • Rosenthal, M. L., The Modern Poets: A Critical Introduction, Oxford University Press, 1960.
  • Rosenthal, The New Poets: American and British Poetry since World War II, Oxford University Press, 1967.
  • Rudman, Mark, Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1983.
  • Sexton, Anne, Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames, Houghton, 1977.
  • Simpson, Eileen, Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir, Random House, 1982.
  • Smith, Vivian, The Poetry of Robert Lowell, Sydney University Press, 1974.
  • Staples, Hugh B., Robert Lowell: The First Twenty Years, Faber, 1962, Farrar, Straus, 1962.
  • Stein, Jean, and George Plimpton, editors, American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy, Harcourt, 1970.
  • Steiner, George, Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman, Atheneum, 1967.
  • Stepanchev, Stephen, American Poetry since 1945, Harper, 1965.
  • Stuart, Sarah Payne, My First Cousin Once Removed: Money, Madness, and the Family of Robert Lowell, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Tillinghast, Richard, Robert Lowell's Life and Work: Damaged Grandeur, University of Michigan Press, 1995.
  • Untermeyer, Louis, Lives of the Poets: The Story of 1000 Years of English and American Poetry, Simon & Schuster, 1959.
  • Vendler, Helen Hennessy, The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition,Harvard University Press, 1995.
  • von Hallberg, Robert, American Poetry and Culture: 1945-1980, Harvard University Press, 1985.
  • Weatherhead, A. Kingsley, The Edge of the Image, University of Washington Press, 1967.
  • Williamson, Alan, Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell, Yale University Press, 1974.
  • World Literature Criticism, Gale, 1992.
  • Yenser, Stephen, Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell, University of California Press, 1975.

PERIODICALS

  • Agenda (special Lowell issue), autumn, 1980.
  • American Book Review, December, 1978-January, 1979.
  • American Literature, March, 1980.
  • American Poetry Review, Volume 7, number 5, 1978.
  • American Quarterly, fall, 1967, winter, 1970.
  • Antioch Review, spring, 1985.
  • Ariel, January, 1981.
  • Atlantic, January, 1952, July, 1959, July, 1982, June, 1983.
  • Book Week, October 11, 1964, February 20, 1966, January 29, 1967.
  • Book World, May 11, 1969.
  • Boundary 2, fall, 1972.
  • Christian Science Monitor, October 15, 1964, December 16, 1965, January 26, 1967, September 21, 1977.
  • Classical and Modern Literature, winter, 1981.
  • Commonweal, May 12, 1961, May 12, 1967, October 17, 1969.
  • Contemporary Literature, Volume 23, number 4, 1982.
  • Critic, April, 1966.
  • Criticism, winter, 1969.
  • Dissent, November/ December, 1969.
  • Encounter, October, 1973, August, 1978, July, 1987.
  • English Language Notes, March, 1974.
  • English Literary History, winter, 1978.
  • Esquire, September, 1969.
  • Essays in Criticism, January, 1979.
  • Georgia Review, spring, 1971, summer, 1973.
  • Harvard Advocate (special Lowell issues), November, 1961, November, 1979.
  • Journal of Modern Literature, September, 1979.
  • Life, February 17, 1967.
  • Literary Review, spring, 1980.
  • London Review of Books, September 17, 1987.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 2, 1986.
  • Modern Drama, March, 1973.
  • Nation, January 18, 1947, September 19, 1959, October 26, 1964, January 24, 1966, December 23, 1968, July 7, 1969, May 19, 1979, April 11, 1987.
  • National Review, February 17, 1978, March 13, 1987, August 14, 1987.
  • New England Quarterly, March, 1971, December, 1972.
  • New Republic, June 8, 1959, October 17, 1964, July 7-14, 1973, July 17, 1976, November 20, 1976, November 26, 1977, June 30, 1979, March 30, 1987.
  • New Statesman, August 31, 1973, March 10, 1978, June 15, 1979.
  • Newsweek, October 12, 1964, September 6, 1976, September 5, 1977, April 27, 1987.
  • New York, July 7, 1969.
  • New Yorker, November 30, 1946, June 9, 1951.
  • New York Herald Tribune, February 7, 1966, February 9, 1966.
  • New York Herald Tribune Book Review, April 22, 1951, February 4, 1962.
  • New York Review of Books, November 23, 1967, October 28, 1976, October 27, 1977, February 9, 1978, March 8, 1979, March 3, 1988.
  • New York Times, November 3, 1946, April 22, 1951, May 3, 1959, April 4, 1976, July 18, 1976, July 7, 1987; July 12, 1987.
  • New York Times Book Review, May 28, 1961, October 4, 1964, January 15, 1967, September 3, 1967, June 15, 1969, April 4, 1971, July 18, 1976, August 14, 1977, October 16, 1977, December 3, 1978, April 8, 1979, July 12, 1987, November 20, 1994, p. 3.
  • Observer (London), June 14, 1987.
  • Paris Review, Volume 25, 1961.
  • Partisan Review, fall, 1967, summer, 1968.
  • Philological Quarterly, spring, 1983.
  • Ploughshares, Volume 5, number 2, 1979.
  • PMLA, January, 1975.
  • Poetry, October, 1959, April, 1962, June, 1966, September, 1967, December, 1971, May, 1978.
  • Prose, Volume 6, 1973.
  • Review, Volume 20, 1969.
  • Salmagundi (special Lowell issues), fall/winter, 1966-1967, spring, 1977.
  • Saturday Review, September 2, 1967, May 3, 1969, September 6, 1969.
  • Saturday Review of Literature, November 16, 1946.
  • Sewanee Review, winter, 1978.
  • Spectator, July 18, 1987.
  • Texas Studies in Language and Literature, summer, 1973, winter, 1976.
  • Time, April 28, 1961, November 3, 1961, October 16, 1964, June 2, 1967, September 15, 1967, June 6, 1969, August 29, 1977.
  • Times (London), June 15, 1962, April 25, 1985.
  • Times Literary Supplement, August 3, 1967, December 25, 1970, August 10, 1973, January 25, 1980, July 10, 1987.
  • Tulane Drama Review, summer, 1967.
  • Twentieth Century Literature, October, 1971, spring, 1985.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, summer, 1967, spring, 1968.
  • Washington Post Book World, January 28, 1979, August 2, 1987, p. 20.
  • Weekly Book Review, November 24, 1946.
  • Yale Review, December, 1959, March, 1962, December, 1964, June, 1967, December, 1969, July, 1994, p. 76.

OBITUARIES

  • AB Bookman's Weekly, November 7, 1977.
  • New York Times, September 13-14, 1977.
  • Observer (London), September 18, 1977.
  • Washington Post, September 14, 1977.