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Robert Lowell

August 2022

  • Portrait Of Robert Lowell<br>Cigarette in hand, American poet and playwright Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977) gestures as he speaks from behind a table, Boston, Massachusetts, 1964. (Photo by Steve Schapiro/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    Robert Lowell: Memoirs, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc – review

    A collection of the poet’s stately prose from the 1950s reveals his shift into confessional writing and the bipolar disorder that led to hospitalisation and regrets

July 2022

  • Robert Lowell, 1967.

    Memoirs by Robert Lowell review – a poet’s life

    A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from the author of Life Studies

December 2019

  • Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick in the 1950s.

    Observer book of the week
    The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle, edited by Saskia Hamilton – review

    This collection of correspondence between the critic and the poet as their marriage fell apart provides a riveting study of ethics and betrayal

June 2019

  • She held a place at the centre of the literary world … Elizabeth Hardwick.

    Novel, letter, essay, memoir? Eimear McBride on Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights

    Hardwick’s novel depicts her encounters with Billie Holiday and refers to her divorce from Robert Lowell, but is much more than autofiction

January 2019

  • Jade Anouka and Jonjo O’Neil are among a revolving cast that appears in Dear Elizabeth.

    Dear Elizabeth review – poets bare their souls in a lyrical show

    Jade Anouka and Jonjo O’Neill give first-rate performances reading the letters between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

January 2018

  • ‘Eerily apposite to our times’ ... Elizabeth Hardwick.

    Book of the day
    The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick review – sublime critical insights

    Darryl Pinckney’s generous selection celebrates pitch-perfect prose and prescient opinions from a golden age in literary criticism

August 2017

  • “The sun’s illumination stealing like the tide across a map to his girl” ... Johannes Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, (c1662-1663).

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Epilogue by Robert Lowell

    Lowell casts a critical and concerned eye over the failures of poetry – but his masterful, free-ish verse answers the question of why the form matters at all

April 2017

  • Poet Ted Hughes<br>British poet Ted Hughes (1930 - 1998), later to become poet laureate, at a party. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

    Books blog
    Sylvia Plath's letters probably won't harm Ted Hughes's reputation

    Bardic men behaving badly, from Lord Byron to Robert Lowell, are traditionally excused – while women poets are written off if they step out of line

March 2017

  • Robert Lowell, in London in 1967.

    Books blog
    Robert Lowell at 100: why his poetry has never been more relevant

    Lowell’s confessional work of the 1960s marked a sea change in American letters – then he fell out of favour. But on the eve of his centenary, his work offers an urgent political message in a time of Trump

August 2015

  • Cincinnati

    Reading American cities
    Reading American cities: books about Cincinnati

    From the origins of Uncle Tom to the stories of revolutionary, radical women, Michael Griffith takes us on a tour of literary Cincinnati – including Toni Morrison, Edmund White and a drive to attract America’s best poets

July 2012

  • Wye river

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: July

    Bills Mills: From Wonderland to US independence to the first world war, July has been the poetic vehicle for a marvellous variety of themes – now it's your chance to sing the joys of summer

February 2012

  • Steven Poole's non-fiction choice
    Et cetera: non-fiction roundup – reviews

    Out of Sight, Out of Mind by John Podmore, Historical Capitalism by Immanuel Wallerstein and The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships edited by Robert B Silvers

January 2011

  • The Poets Laureate Anthology edited by Elizabeth Hun Schmidt – review

    By Nicholas Wroe

December 2010

  • Ivana Lowell

    Ivana Lowell: So, who was my father?

    Ivana Lowell's childhood was punctuated by disaster, including sexual abuse. But worst of all, she says, was finding out that her father wasn't who she'd thought

July 2010

  • Robert Lowell

    My hero
    My hero Robert Lowell by Jonathan Raban

    'In his greatest poems he brilliantly fused the most intimate details of his own life with the public turmoil of his century'

June 2010

  • Michael Symmons Roberts on his production of Mozart's Zaide

    Faced with the challenge of completing an unfinished Mozart libretto about violent oppression, Michael Symmons Roberts chose to return to the themes of forgiveness and redemption

December 2008

  • 'I seem to spend my life missing you'

    The correspondence of two giants of American poetry has all the sadness, comedy and truth of love, says Peter McDonald

July 2008

  • Robert Lowell

    Robert Lowell

    "The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train"

July 2005

  • The poet laid bare

    The true nature of Robert Lowell is exposed in Saskia Hamilton's riveting collection of his letters, says Michael Hofmann.

August 2003

  • Kingdom of the mad

    Jay Parini applauds the Herculean efforts to produce Robert Lowell's Collected Poems

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