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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (/ˈloʊəl/; March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) 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. The literary scholar Paula Hayes believes that Lowell mythologized New England, particularly in his early work.
Lowell stated, "The poets who most directly influenced me ... were Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. An unlikely combination! ... but you can see that Bishop is a sort of bridge between Tate's formalism and Williams's informal art." Lowell was capable of writing both formal, metered verse as well as free verse; his verse in some poems from Life Studies and Notebook fell somewhere in between metered and free verse.
After the publication of his 1959 book Life Studies, which won the 1960 National Book Award and "featured a new emphasis on intense, uninhibited discussion of personal, family, and psychological struggles," he was considered an important part of the confessional poetry movement. However, much of Lowell's work, which often combined the public with the personal, did not conform to a typical "confessional poetry" model. Instead, Lowell worked in a number of distinctive stylistic modes and forms over the course of his career.
Kay explains how the poet Robert Lowell has helped her understanding of mental health issues. Kay Redfield Jamison is a clinical psychologist with a unique story. She is a world leader in the study of bipolar (manic-depressive) illness, a condition that she herself has had since adolescence. As a highly regarded clinician with direct experience of the condition she treats, she has a rare and moving perspective on the debilitating nature of this psychiatric disorder and its seductive but disastrous highs, depressions and disordered thinking. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the USA and the author of 'An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness', which explores her initial ambivalence towards a life dependent on medication and her f...
Helen Vendler, Harvard University, spoke briefly with Art Institute director Jim Cuno about Modernist poetry before her lecture Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy on October 22, 2009. For a podcast of this lecture, go to www.artinstituteofchicago.org and click on Interact.
Poet Robert Lowell Collection-below one can find a list of the books mentioned in this video- "Selected Poems" poetry by Robert Lowell "Notebook" poems by Robert Lowell "Collected Prose" by Robert Lowell "The Letters Of Robert Lowell" Edited By Saskia Hamilton "Robert Lowell: A Biography" by Ian Hamilton "Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell" by Paul Mariani "Robert Lowell Setting The River On Fire: A Study Of Genius, Mania, And Character" by Kay Redfield Jamison "This book is not a biography. I have written a psychological account of the life and mind of Robert Lowell; it is a well a narrative of the illness that so affected him, manic-depressive illness" Jamison "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness And The Artistic Temperament" by Kay Redfield Jamison "Poems, Prose, and...
Rare and long out of print cassette lecture series offered here for educational purposes. Recorded October 1990.
Kay explains how the poet Robert Lowell has helped her understanding of mental health issues. Kay Redfield Jamison is a clinical psychologist with a unique story. She is a world leader in the study of bipolar (manic-depressive) illness, a condition that she herself has had since adolescence. As a highly regarded clinician with direct experience of the condition she treats, she has a rare and moving perspective on the debilitating nature of this psychiatric disorder and its seductive but disastrous highs, depressions and disordered thinking. She is Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the USA and the author of 'An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness', which explores her initial ambivalence towards a life dependent on medication and her f...
Helen Vendler, Harvard University, spoke briefly with Art Institute director Jim Cuno about Modernist poetry before her lecture Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy on October 22, 2009. For a podcast of this lecture, go to www.artinstituteofchicago.org and click on Interact.
Poet Robert Lowell Collection-below one can find a list of the books mentioned in this video- "Selected Poems" poetry by Robert Lowell "Notebook" poems by Robert Lowell "Collected Prose" by Robert Lowell "The Letters Of Robert Lowell" Edited By Saskia Hamilton "Robert Lowell: A Biography" by Ian Hamilton "Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell" by Paul Mariani "Robert Lowell Setting The River On Fire: A Study Of Genius, Mania, And Character" by Kay Redfield Jamison "This book is not a biography. I have written a psychological account of the life and mind of Robert Lowell; it is a well a narrative of the illness that so affected him, manic-depressive illness" Jamison "Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness And The Artistic Temperament" by Kay Redfield Jamison "Poems, Prose, and...
Rare and long out of print cassette lecture series offered here for educational purposes. Recorded October 1990.
In anticipation of Robert Lowell's centennial year in 2017, the Woodberry Poetry hosted a lively and thought-provoking conversation about Boston’s beloved “Cal,” featuring poet and Lowell scholar Saskia Hamilton as moderator and a gathering of his friends: Frank Bidart, Fanny Howe, Christopher Ricks and Lloyd Schwartz. Reminiscences included details about his writing process, his role as a father, husband, friend and mentor, his mental illness and the effect of his medication/treatment, his relationship to the Lowell family, to Boston, and to America history, his conscientious objection during WWII and his participation in the anti-War movement. The event also included brief excerpts from a very moving and compelling interview with Lowell’s daughter Harriet Lowell in August 2016, conduct...
Gail Mazur, Frank Bidart, Robert Pinsky and Lloyd Schwartz gather here to remember their mentor, renowned poet and professor Robert Lowell, and to celebrate the publication of his Collected Poems.
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney gives Boston University's semiannual Lowell Lecture, joined by David Ferry, an Arts and Sciences lecturer in creative writing, and Peter Campion (GRS'00) for a reading and book signing. Hosted by Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Creative Writing Program on October 2, 2008.
http://www.92Y.org/VPC - In her first letter to Robert Lowell, dated May 12, 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote, "I was supposed to read, too, up at the YMHA Saturday evening but couldn't make it, and I hope my absence was a help rather than a hindrance." While the poets never shared an evening at the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center, the recently published Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell makes clear that they shared much during their 30-year friendship. And in a dramatic presentation of their letters and some of their poems, Tony-nominated actors Kate Burton and Michael Cumpsty brought that friendship to life. Recorded May 24, 2010 at 92nd Street Y.
Composer Michael Hersch and Kay Redfield Jamison of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine discussed the role of mood disorders in poetry, as well as Hersch's Library of Congress commission "Carrion-Miles to Purgatory." For transcript and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=7437
Rare and long out of print cassette lecture series offered here for educational purposes. Recorded October 1990.
The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs. Published in New York City, it is inspired by the idea that the discussion of important books is an indispensable literary activity. Esquire called it "the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English language." In 1970 writer Tom Wolfe described it as "the chief theoretical organ of Radical Chic". The Review publishes long-form reviews and essays, often by well-known writers, original poetry, and has lively letters and personals advertising sections. In 1979 the magazine founded the London Review of Books, which continues independently. In 1990 it founded an Italian edition, la Rivista dei Libri, published until 2010. Robert B. ...
Former CIA operative Robert Baer is one of the most accomplished operatives in the agency’s history. He spent much of his 21 years with the CIA in the Middle East, and one of his notable assignments was an attempt to assassinate Saddam Hussein. His memoirs were turned into the Oscar-winning film Syriana. Robert discussed the history of assassination-- the subject of his latest book, The Perfect Kill-- with PBS Frontline correspondent Lowell Bergman.