Robert Lowell
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Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His ancestors and contemporary family were important s
At the Grolier Poetry Bookshop in Harvard Square, 1965
Lowell as a child with his father, Commander Robert Traill Spence Lowell III, around 1920
St. Mark's School, Southborough, Massachusetts
Vietnam War protestors at the March on the Pentagon, 1967
Sylvia Plath
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Sylvia Plath was an American poet and author. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and her works include The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobi
Robert Lowell
…with Paul Engle and Robie Macauley. Later, Donald James Winslow hired Lowell to teach at Boston University, where his students included the poets Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and George Starbuck. Over the years, he taught at a number of other universities including the University of Cincinnati, Yale University…
Sylvia Plath
Sidgwick Hall at Newnham College, Cambridge
Plath's stay at McLean Hospital inspired her novel The Bell Jar
Chalcot Square, near Primrose Hill in London, Plath and Hughes's home from 1959